Our Ecology

All berries are produced under Assured Produce guidelines with defined policies in place addressing the many issues of the countryside, bio-diversity and food standards.

Pixley Berries is proud of its rural heritage and shares it with many of its neighbours.

We enjoy several hectares of ancient woodland, a number of old coppices and old orchards. We abound with old hedgerows of mature trees, oak, ash, thorn, cherry, field maple, willow and alder, and wild rose too.

Notably, bio-diversity includes barn owls, dormice, otters, green woodpeckers, buzzards, bats and tadpoles. And we have a great collection of beetles from our hopyards, collected by Dr Colin Campbell of East Malling Research.

Berry growers greatest friends….. bumblebees, ladybirds, lacewings, beetles, typhs, soldier beetles, spiders and many others. Did you know there are at least 7 types of ladybird, red, yellow, brown and black, from 1 to 6 mm long? And their larvae are even more voracious feeders than the adults.

Our favourite time of year, May. Fresh green everywhere and apples and sloe in blossom. Bees and bumble bees at work in the berry fields. And the birds busy breeding.