Hay Time Project Officer, Carol Edmondson, lead a morning of floral immersion on the 6th July. The walk started with a relaxing stroll around the Life 4 a Life meadow on the banks of the River Lune. There was time to absorb the abundance of bees, flowers and bird life enjoying the habitat (created in partnership …
Marking National Meadows Day, two colourful new interpretation boards were installed in July at the entrances to the meadow. The boards outline how Britain has lost 97% of its species-rich wildflower meadows, and how important these meadows were historically, for both communities and for nature. There are drawings of many of the wildflowers growing in …
We are absolutely delighted with the progress to transform Hermitage Field into a Species rich wildflower meadow. Thank you to all our volunteers, our funders, Plantlife, The Green Recovery Challenge, Halton Lune Hydro, The Areti Charitable Foundation, Life for Life Memorial Forests. We would like to thank the meadow team at Forest Of Bowland Area …
Abbeystead youth group joined us on a chilly November morning for the final plug planting of the season. This organised and experienced young team planted 170 wild flowers into the meadow, and had a bit of fun seed bombing with some locally harvested seed.Working as a team they built a fabulous ‘dead hedge” to provide …
Thank you to our super teams of volunteers who have turned up frequently to support the creation of a community wild flower meadow on Hermitage Field. It has been an absolutely fabulous community effort and we have been able to plant an amazing 9,451 wild flower plugs into the meadow, culminating in 414 hours of …
9,451 wild flower plug plants planted. 816 hours of donated volunteer time! Read More »
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 …
