Sarah Baker

As the GLNP’s agricultural specialist my role includes influencing agricultural policy and promoting practices that enhance both biodiversity and farm profitability.

My home county of Lincolnshire has been shaped by agriculture and with family connections to farming our beautiful landscape, achieving those mutual benefits is really important to me. Not least because living in the heart of the Lincolnshire Wolds, that landscape is right on my doorstep and a significant amount of my time is either spent walking through those fields with my collie Roxy or volunteering to help conserve some of our most precious habitats.

In recent years, my work with the GLNP has really focused on pollinators, understanding more about them and looking for opportunities to help their conservation. This has involved managing a Defra-funded research study to assess how pollinators, and the wider invertebrate community, use different arable crops in light of significant increases in maize cropping across this area. Then looking at how that information can help inform practical efforts on the ground. However that’s only half the story and ensuring this knowledge feeds into agricultural policy is also vital.