Hook Farm is situated in an Area of National Beauty and we run the site both to minimise our impact on the environment and to create habitats that encourage as much wildlife as possible. We are passionate about making the site look as natural as possible and actively manage areas to encourage wildlife.

Below we list some of the ways we help to care for our environment and encourage our customers to support us in minimising our environmental footprint.

Solar Panels

We have three solar electric arrays on site that generate electricity for the site which we primarily use to heat water for our shower blocks. We also charge our electric golf buggy which we use for pitching from this source as well. We also have a solar thermal array that also helps to heat our hot water.

Nature Reserves

We actively manage two nature reserve areas. One, a wildflower meadow planted in 2019, is still establishing. The other runs along the side of the site where we actively manage around 0.5 acre of wild woodland. To protect these areas both of them are out of bounds to our customers but they are visible from different parts of our site.

Green Waste

To minimise the use of chemical lawn fertilisers we either mulch or compost all of our grass cuttings.

All wood we cut to manage our trees is either logged and used for our domestic log burner or chipped and used as a mulch around the flower beds around the site

Recycling

We have recycling bins located around our site and actively sort our general waste bins daily. To help with this we ask and encourage our customers sort their waste at the time of disposal. In 2024 we estimate that 60% (by volume) of our waste created during the season was recycled. We work with the help of our customers to increase this percentage each year.

Spring Water

In 2022 we installed a spring water collection and treatment plant to our refurbished lower toilet block which reduces our mains water usage.

​We have also installed additional solar electric panels to help heat more water.

Wildlife

We leave many of our terrace banks uncut during the season to encourage wild flowers and grasses which attract insects and birds. We ask that guests do not walk down the banks to help protect the plants.

Finally, we ask our customers to cut their vehicle engines during check in and not to run car engines on pitches.

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We are passionate about all environmental issues and aim to improve each year.
We welcome all comments and feedback from our customers in terms of what we can do to improve.

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Hook Farm is situated in a Dark Skies area which means there is very little light pollution at night and therefore on a clear night we have stunning views of the night sky and in particular the Milky Way. If you are lucky and your stay coincides with the International Space Station passing overhead it is clearly visible.