Get off our land! Farmers told to make way for solar panels
The Times, Ben Ellery 3rd February 2023 TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER JAMES GLOSSOP For generations Rob Sturdy’s family have tended their farm and produced wheat, rapeseed oil and barley in the town of Malton, celebrated by chefs as Yorkshire’s food capital. However, he and his family face the [...]
Battling to Save Land from Solar Farm
Yorkshire Post, Chris Berry 8th October 2022 Until two years ago farming couple Robert and Emma Sturdy were living in harmony with their young family at Eden Farm in Old Malton where Robert had become the third generation to tenant on what is predominantly good quality, [...]
We Have 10 Years to Save the English Countryside
The rise and rise of solar farms By Emma Gatten
Campaign against solar panels goes to Commons
Gazette and Herald, Karen Darley, 9th March A campaign to prevent a solar panel development near Old Malton is being taken to the House of Commons this week. The Save Old Malton Countryside campaign, founded by Robert and Emma Sturdy, has helped to form the [...]
Landmark Malton case proves solar farms on rural land is false economy
Yorkshire Post, George Dunn 15th September 2021 THERE is nothing which more aptly demonstrates our modern inability to properly think through how we address complex issues as a society than the plan to install just short of 100,000 solar panels on approaching half of the area [...]
Family Support at Food Festival
Gazette and Herald, Karen Darley, 8th September A FAMILY fighting to save part of their farm from a solar energy scheme have said they are encouraged by the support in their campaign. Robert and Emma Sturdy, who live on the 280-acre Eden Farm near Old [...]