Easter on the SDS
Yesterday was our biggest and best Easter Egg Rollathon yet, with 200 eggs entered from 96 contestants! For those who don’t yet know, every year we run an egg rolling competition down the steep south-facing slope of the Rifle Range, with chocolate egg prizes for...
Helping Dogs on the SDS
Dog Ambassadors is Launched!There’s been quite a bit of national publicity recently highlighting the many and varied problems dogs seem to be causing in the countryside. If they’re not worrying farm animals, dogs seem to be busying themselves chasing...
Planting Special Elms
On 15th February we teamed up with the Youth Action team from the South Downs National Park to plant some rather special Elm trees. Dutch Elm Disease ravaged almost all of the English Elms in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s. Although Elms can still be found in the...
Rescuing Juniper
Juniper bushes have been growing on the South Downs since the last ice age. But now, due to plant disease, habitat loss and our changing climate, they are in trouble. The Steyning Downland Scheme looks after two populations of Juniper plants. At the top of Steyning...Get in touch with SDS
Tel: 01903 817996
Email: sds@wistonestate.co.uk
