Hermitage Field Community Meadow volunteers and trustees attended a very special Coronation Tea on 10 May, to celebrate the coronation of King Charles. The event, held at County Hall in Preston, brought together organisations from all parts of Lancashire’s environmental spectrum, and was intended to reflect King Charles’s deep interest in the environment – and …
If you’ve been for a walk through Hermitage Field recently, you’ll have seen the lovely new signs on the gates to the meadow. Lynne Gorner, of Naturally Creative, produced the beautiful designs, and we used a local company, Alpha Engraving, to print the finished signs. We’d also like to thank wildlife artist Ali White for …
Despite the current heatwave, work to produce wildflower plugs for Hermitage Field continues. We are very grateful to Lancaster City Council for making a refurbished glasshouse available to us, for growing on our seedlings. But what’s particularly valuable in this hot weather is an automatic watering system, to help keep our plants lush and moist. …
Saturday 1 July is National Meadows Day. Come and join us to find out about species-rich wildflower meadows, and how we are restoring Hermitage Field Community Meadow. The walk will be informal and relaxed and will also take in the Life for a Life meadow and other pollinator sites at the Crook O’Lune. Booking is …
Come and help us plant out wildflowers in Hermitage Field Community Meadow in our first two volunteer sessions of 2023. We are running sessions on: Wednesday 26th April Wednesday 3rd May Both sessions run from 4-5pm, meeting on Hermitage field Community Meadow. We welcome volunteers of all ages – children are welcome if accompanied by …
The 2023 growing season has got off to a great start. Lancaster City Council have given us the use of a glasshouse at their White Lund Depot (in addition to the poly tunnels we’ve used for the last two years) and we’ve been hard at work sowing locally-collected wildflower seed and growing on the young …
A huge thank you to the Bowland Hay Time Project which has made a generous donation of 20kg of locally brush-harvested, species-rich wildflower seed for the meadow. Peter Blackwell (Bell Sykes Coronation meadow) was involved in the brush harvesting and storage of the seed (meadow seed has to be kept cool and dry and should …
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We are delighted to announce that Halton Lune Hydro has supported the charity with funding of £2,650. This will cover capital cost of managing Hermitage Field Community Meadow for the year. Their generous grant will provide funding for end-of-season management, and cover insurance costs to enable our community volunteer sessions to continue. The funding will …
We were delighted to welcome ‘The Bay: a Blueprint for Recovery’ to the meadow on a beautiful sunny day in September. Volunteers and team members quickly planted 500 wildflower plug plants into an area of the meadow which is being enhanced for disabled visitors, and we were able to enjoy coffee and biscuits in the …
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We are running a community meadow planting session on Wednesday 31st August at 3.30pm at Hermitage Field Community Meadow (next to Woodies car park) Low Road, Crook O’ Lune. We have over 1,000 wildflower plugs ready to plant out – all grown by volunteers and donated by the Forest of Bowland AONB. Please bring your …
