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This page relates to the 2019–2024 National Park Management Plan, which is now archived. For the latest aims and objectives, please visit the 2025–30 Management Plan landing page.
Develop and launch an annual farm and estate ‘open day’ programme by 2022, to enable more people to experience and understand the roles that farming, food production, woodland and moorland management play in looking after the distinctive landscape of the Yorkshire Dales National Park
How the local partners are doing on this objective
Progress: A number of individual farm open days have been organised by The Farmer Network – including as part of the Westmorland Dales Landscape Partnership (see A7). An open day has also been run in each of the last 3 years as part of Tees- Swale: Naturally Connected.
Press Releases & related articles:
30 August 2022 – Dales dairy farm welcomes public
Rationale: 95% of the National Park is in private ownership. Farming and sporting uses are responsible for the way that the National Park is managed. Many of the important habitats – heather moorland; hay meadows – would not exist without that management. Yet the general public has little understanding of – nor the opportunity to experience – this farming life. Wider public support will be essential to secure future taxpayer funding to support high-nature value farming and land management.
Lead partner: Dales Farmer Network
Supporting partners: Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority; Northern Hill Farming Panel; Yorkshire Dales Farming & Land Management Forum; Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group; British Association for Shooting and Conservation.
Further information:
Cost over 5 years: £25,000
Funding shortfall: n/a
Related objectives: A1; C1; E2; E9
Ecosystem services: Recreation; A sense of history
Trade-offs: None
Baseline: n/a