A licence from Lancaster City Council has provided an excellent opportunity to enable the charity to grow wild flower plugs for Hermitage Field Community Meadow, other local wild flower areas and contribute wild flower plugs and seed of local provenance to the Councils own Grassland Management project. Funding from the Areti Charitable Trust has enabled …
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A beauty spot at the Crook O’Lune near Lancaster, known locally as Hermitage Field, is getting a new lease of life as a wildflower meadow. A formal 12 year license agreement has been finalised between Lancaster City Council as owner of the site and charitable residents’ group, Hermitage Field Community Meadow. The agreement will allow the …
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Sunrise from the top of Hermitage Field Community meadow.
Hermitage Field Community meadow getting cut and baled for the first time in many years, 33 bales were made! Thank you to all the contractors and Highways in Caton for donating the lovely signs. Harrowing to create areas of bare earth to receive the wild flower seed. We are aiming for 50-80% bare earth. Local …
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Hermitage Field Community Meadow. Local farmer Mike Barker has recently used his pregnant ewes to graze Hermitage Field. They have reduced the thick grassy thatch and improved the condition of the field. Now they have been removed and the site will grow and regenerate naturally until August. Transects will be taken to establish which wild …
