The green green grass of home - our environmental & wildlife policy
Walford Court enjoys a beautiful peaceful countryside location. Our vision is to create an ideal where both guests and family enjoy living in and working with the environment.
We are working together with the Herefordshire Nature Trust to ensure we do our bit to protect Herefords rich heritage of ancient woodlands, wildflower meadows and fast flowing rivers.
We are silver award winners in the Green tourism business scheme and feature in the eco section of the Guardians top 1000 UK B&B’s 2008.
Our Environmental policy
At Walford Court we aim to adopt a 3R policy – re-use, re-cycle and reduce.
Re-cycle all plastics, glass and newspapers
Compost all our vegetable and garden waste
Feed leftovers to the chickens
Use chicken waste to improve the garden!
Collect rainwater and use for watering the garden
Minimise use of harmful cleaning solutions
Grow our fruit and vegetables organically
Monitor and reduce our energy use
Share tips and ideas with our guests
Re-cycle jars for use with our home made jams, preserves and pickles
Use only low energy long life bulbs
Keep thinking of new 3 R’s
Keep focused on thinking green!
Our Wildlife policy
At Walford Court we aim to maximise our guests enjoyment of our beautiful surroundings and the countryside around us by
Providing binoculars and reference material and setting up a book to record sightings of wildlife
Seek out advice on means of encouraging wildlife into the garden
Developing wildlife walks for our guests
Establishing a community effort re-establish Walford as a renowned area for owls
What this means to you
Whilst we want your loo paper to be as luxurious as possible – it’s Nouvelle we use as it’s made from re-cycled paper
We do not use or encourage too much packaging, so you wont see mini packets of cereals at breakfast – just ask if your favourite cereal isn’t on show and we should be able to provide it
We use low energy bulbs and radiator panels to save energy
We offer considerable discounts on longer stays, but we ask that you are happy in turn to re-use your bedding and towels as far as possible
Lots of information is available for you to take away in our Green Book which is kept in the dining room, just ask if you want copies made
Wildlife books are available for you to read, and binoculars for you to use. We’d love it if you’d record your sightings in the book too!
A donation tin for the Herefordshire Nature Trust will be available in the dining room for your “small change”!
You have the comfort of knowing that no pesticides or chemicals have been used on the food you eat here
How you can help
Turn off lights and fires when you don’t need them
Stack any newspapers you may have finished with at the side of the bin so we can re-cycle
Read our green book and take some ideas away with you – and share them with your family friends and neighbours
Leave any of your tips or good ideas in our green book and help spread the word!
Share your sightings with us!
