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 …
We have welcomed lots of volunteers to the meadow recently to plant in the wild flower plugs which have been grown in the poly tunnel. These relaxing informal sessions are a chance to get out into the fresh air, enjoy the stunning landscape and meet people from the community of all ages – we have …
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 …
Funding from Halton Lune Hydro Trust has enabled us to contract Carl Richardson to dig out and strim down the docks before they set seed. This is all part of the process to get Hermitage Field into better condition for growing wild flowers. The benches on site have been liberated from weeds, one is in for …
Thank you once again to our local volunteers who have planted a staggering 1,500 plug plants on the meadow so far we have managed to keep most of them alive during this period of hot weather. Thank you once again to our local volunteers who have planted a staggering 1,500 plug plants on the meadow …
Our enthusiastic volunteers continue to join us planting seeds and pricking out wild flower seedlings in the poly tunnel we meet on Monday Wednesday and Friday mornings and if you would like to join us please email us via the contact page. Our next outdoor socially isolated volunteer sessions are Wednesday 2nd June 6.30pm-7.30pm and …
A wonderful donation of three sacks of species rich ‘barn sweepings’ from hay from local species rich meadows donated by Cath and Bill Grayson, local conservation graziers. The barn sweepings will contain lots of fine meadow grasses, meadow buttercups, red clover eyebright and the fine seeds of orchids which appear as dust and have fallen …
