Gardeners on our Estate in Oxfordshire are ditching their mowers and allowing nature to lead the way.
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Our Estate has joined forces with food producers Worthy Earth to create a flourishing regenerative kitchen garden within its historic Walled Garden.
A colony of wild honeybees has been rescued after being discovered inside a giant fallen oak tree branch on our Estate.
We are inviting people to nominate their local heros to be recognised in an Avenue of trees being created to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.
Our Estate and its unique colonies of wild honeybees had a starring role on BBC One’s Countryfile on Sunday.
We have added new interpretation panels to our series of circular permissive paths in Long Hanborough.
The modern British White Cattle breed can claim direct links with the ancient indigenous wild white cattle of Great Britain.
We are creating a new Countryside Ranger role to help look after and raise awareness of our Estate’s public green spaces.
We advertised for a Head Shepherd in 2021 to look after our 1,200-strong flock of Scotch Mule sheep.
School children from across the south are joining our epic tree-planting project to create nine new woodlands on our Estate.
Our shepherds are asking dog owners to act responsibly while visiting our estate in the run up to lambing season.
We are joining forces with Rowse Honey on a major conservation project to create a sustainable nectar source for local wild bees and other pollinators, as well as introducing new habitats for insects and birds, in and around our Oxfordshire estate.
Our rural team has completed planting the first of nine new woodlands on our Oxfordshire Estate.
We are looking to recruit a new Head Gardener – the first time the role has become vacant in 40 years.
We are marking National Apprenticeship Week by highlighting the work of our new apprentice stockperson, Ellie Young.
Our commitment to create nine new woodlands and plant more than 270,000 trees has been hailed as a ‘shining example’ by the Forestry Commission.
Our shared ownership scheme at Park View - Woodstock is offering local people an affordable way to buy their own property and stay in the area.
We are helping to rebuild wild barn owl populations with the help of artificial nest boxes which have been put up around the estate.
We have begun work on a new solar park on former agricultural land northeast of Woodstock.
The first of 270,000 trees are being planted on our Estate as part of an ‘unprecedented’ project, in partnership with Morgan Sindall Group plc, the construction and regeneration group, to create nine new woodlands.
Our ground-breaking approach to affordable housing was described as ‘outstanding’ by judges after we won Best Partnership Scheme at the WhatHouse? Awards on Friday.
More than 100 trees have been snapped in two after a tornado ripped through Burleigh Wood in Bladon on Halloween.
We've joined forces with the Environment Agency, Thames Water and the Evenlode Catchment Partnership in a unique partnership to help restore one of Oxfordshire’s most important floodplains.
We have won the inaugural Public/Private Partnership of the Year Award at the Estates Gazette Awards in partnership with West Oxfordshire District Council.
The first phase of affordable housing has become available at our ground-breaking Park View development in Woodstock.
We have reached the final of the Sustainable Housebuilder of the Year at the annual Housebuilder Awards.
Blenheim Estate Homes and West Oxfordshire District Council have been nominated as finalists in The Public/Private Partnership Award category of 2021’s Estate Gazette Awards.
The Palace is used to welcoming royalty, but when a queen bee inadvertently led her colony to swarm on a stone plinth outside the Duke of Marlborough’s private entrance it was decided she needed to be gently escorted off the premises.
We are looking to recruit a shepherd to help care for our 1,000-strong flock of sheep, as well as our collection of rare breed British white cattle .
We have welcomed the government’s new national model design code, which was published this week.
The eight-week-old border collie puppies are the latest generation born from our sheepdogs who work across the Estate.
During Rural Housing Week the Rural Housing Alliance has praised our response to the urgent need for additional affordable housing in the country.
Restoration work on our traditional dry stone walling has revealed a fascinating glimpse into the estate’s past.
Blenheim Estate Homes has been shortlisted for the Estates Gazette Future of Real Estate Award 2021.