A fantastic community effort! Thank you to everyone who attended the ‘Wildflower Weekend at Woodies’ event, in honour of Paul Woodruff on 14th August 2021.We had an incredible turn out, with 50 volunteers taking part over 2 sessions. A staggering 1,170 plant plugs were planted, all of which were grown by volunteers in the LCC …
In July and early August the meadow was cut and the top third was chain harrowed to receive wild flower seed and wild flower plugs. Our trusty contractor EJ ward and his skilled driver Jonathon conducted both operations.
We would like to thank Sir Mark and Arebella Lennox – boyd for kindly allowing us to brush harvest seed from their beautiful meadows outside Gresgarth Hall. The wild flower and grass seed will allow us to add more diversity to Hermitage Field Community meadow. Some of the seed has been dried to grow into …
We were looking around for local meadow seed to restore Hermitage Field Community Meadow and both Claire Cornish one of our Trustees ( and meadow adviser for Cumbria Wildlife Trust) and Carol Edmondson (Meadow adviser, Forest of Bowland AONB and Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust) suggested brush harvesting some of the Community Meadow on the Life …
The idea of this blog is to give anyone interesting in creating a wild flower meadow to see the work involved, and of course let the community know what we are doing to enhance and improve this site.One of the jobs for July has been to remove Dock seed heads and dig out Dock from …
Yellow rattle seed is a hemi parasite on grasses and helps to control vigorous grass growth to allow wild flowers to flourish on a meadow. The brush harvester passes over a meadow and collects seed as it passes. The seed is collected in a giant hopper, which is emptied onto a tarpaulin to allow insects …
Thank you to Stephen and Amy Wakelin who allowed us to collect Yellow rattle seed from their field for Hermitage Field Community Meadow. This is excellent source of seed of local provenance which has been cleaned and added to the meadow. This work was funded by The Plantlife Green Recovery bid and the brush harvesting …
Find a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. My father would tell me this as a child and a young adult, steering me towards a career I would love rather than endure for rewards. The path always seemed green for me, one which required me to look after the …
”Thank you once again for having us and making the session such fun” We welcomed Caton Brownies to do a spot of wild flower spotting and planting with us to plant our community meadow and we all had fun! We forgot to do the rain dance but we watered in all the plugs. It was …
We had a brilliant time with Wray scouts. Joseph organised a super wild flower treasure hunt and the Scouts really enjoyed the hunt and treasure! We did some seed bombing with the Grayson’s precious wild flower seed on the mole hills and planted about 200 plug plants grown by our lovely volunteers in Lancaster City …
