HOME            COMPANY    PRODUCTION     PACKING     PROTOCOLS  CONTACTS  MESSAGE PROFILE CUSTOMERS PDO NEWS RECIPES SEASONALITY SEED PLASTIC PESTICIDES HARVESTING ORGANIC GROWERS ENVIRONMENT AUDITS EDUCATION 01/07/2008 Season Update 2008 has been a very challenging s(...) Read more... 13/05/2008 A Star is Born! The Morrisons DVD which was filmed(...) Read more... 13/05/2008 Harvesting Begins in Earnest After the poor weather of March & (...) Read more... 28/03/2008 1st Outdoor Harvest of 2008 The first outdoor crop of the seas(...) Read more... 28/03/2008 Morrisons to Film in Jersey On Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th of (...) Read more... 28/03/2008 Planting Update Planting of this year’s export cro(...) Read more... ENVIRONMENT All produce grown and marketed by the Jersey Royal Company adheres to strict criteria which will ensure that the products supplied are fresh, attractive in appearance and taste good. Above all the food, which we grow, must be safe to eat and be produced with a minimal effect on the environment around us. We therefore take great pride in our effort to produce the crops that we grow in a sustainable manner. To this end the company has a number of initiatives that minimise our environmental impacts; Continual reduction of inputs year on year Reduce - re-use – recycle approach to waste Energy efficiency Wildlife and landscape conservation and enhancement The Jersey Royal Company is committed to farming in a sustainable manner that has a minimum impact on both the local and global environment. The nature of our work brings us in constant contact with the natural environment around us, much of which has been taken for granted. In order to fill its moral and customer obligation the Company has therefore developed a programme of conserving the natural landscape which acts as habitats for the Islands wildlife. The programme extends not only to conservation but also to enhancement and so new habitats are being created. The Island has a rich diversity of species some of which are common throughout Western Europe, some are rare migratory visitors and a few of which are endemic to the Island. The aim of the Company is to maintain habitats for those common species found and create specific habitats for the rarer species. In order to limit the impact of our farming operations and develop our conservation and enhancement programme an ‘Integrated Management Policy’ has been written which describes how our current operations are developed to reduce environmental disruption but crucially also has a development programme of conservation and enhancement with suggested timescales where appropriate. To gain some expertise in this field the majority of projects have been developed in conjunction with local agencies and groups who are acknowledged as being specialists in their field. The disparity of the farm is not unusual of farming practices in the Island but it does make both the farming operations and any wildlife and conservation efforts more difficult. To aid the co-ordination of both farming operations and wildlife conservation and enhancement JR(pm) have invested in the Digimap Mapping System that can be used to visualise the Islands features such as field boundaries, road networks, buildings, watercourses etc. Key projects include; Creation of nesting landscapes for Skylark Creating and developing nest sites and feeding areas for barn owl, long eared owl, and kestrel Development of wetland and wetland meadows Sowing of wildlife crops for insects, residential birds and migratory species Regeneration of natural features through of planting of native trees and hedgerows (over 3000 trees were planted in February 2007). Home | Company | Production | Packing | Protocols | News | Recipes | Contacts