Short guides for six farming systems: vegetable production, combinable cropping, rotations with root crops and maize, mixed farms, lowland livestock farms and upland farms.

This manual is a definitive guide to natural flood management. It is divided into five parts:
Part A provides an overview of natural flood management and a high-level checklist of the steps to deliver it.

A guide for schools (though could be applicable elsewhere) on how to install green barriers to protect school grounds from air pollution. Benefits for biodiversity from following this guidance could be enhanced by selecting some native species from the suggested table of plant species.

This Adaptation Manual suggests strategies for helping habitats and species to adapt to climate change. As well as being important for nature conservation and recovery, this is also important for ensuring that nature-based solutions can continue to deliver their benefits to people in future.

This document provides a template Heads of Terms agreement as guidance for drafting the terms for a long-term agreement to enter into a Landscape Recovery project with Defra and other private sources of funding, should a blended finance approach be adopted.

This Code of Practice has been developed to encourage suppliers of native flora to be clear about what they are selling and to keep proper records on the origin of their stock.

This website hosts a set of documents that provide guidance on how to assess the ecological condition of the different habitats found in the UK, based on factors such as the presence of ‘indicator’ plant species.

This guidance shows how to perform common standards monitoring (CSM) for designated sites, including SSSIs and SACs, that specifically identify Lowland Heathland habitats as a site feature. It provides guidance on the identification of interest features, attributes, targets and methods of assessment.

This guidance shows how to perform common standards monitoring (CSM) for designated sites, including SSSIs and SACs, that specifically identify Upland Heathland habitats as a site feature. It provides guidance on the identification of interest features, attributes, targets and methods of assessment.

The People’s Trust for Endangered Species has useful resources on establishing and managing community orchards, including this list of tips for ensuring good community engagement.

This is a comprehensive practical manual: a cookbook of methods and techniques to help people effectively manage and conserve bogs.

This is a decision framework for deciding where trees can and cannot be planted in relation to peat and peaty soils, in order to be eligible for the English Woodland Creation grant.