Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)

Farm Hedges and Trees

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs ‘Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)’ provides financial support to farm businesses to undertake environmentally beneficial farming practices, focusing on biodiversity water quality.

EFS wider level aims to deliver benefits across the countryside. The schemes on offer include:

• New hedge planting
• Tree planting by the way of riverside buffer zones
• Nature tree corridors
• Agroforestry
• Traditional orchard creation

For further specialist advice please contact Henry on 07725838157 or 028 29572011 or visit our Farm Hedging category.