Our brilliant volunteers turned out to plant 300 wild flower plug plants in an isolated plug planting session, in addition to growing them too! This brings the total of wild flowers planted to 550. Thank you all. Volunteers also cleared the site of two big sacks of old baler twine and baler plastic wrap Thank …
The first community plug planting gets underway on the meadow with Common knapweed, a plant we selected for our logo planted first. This project to grow plug plants has been sponsored by The Areti Charitable Trust with support from Lancaster City Council. The Lune Hydro Trust grant has enabled us to purchase sharp sand and …
Work in the poly tunnels continues with our ever increasing volunteer team, growing locally harvested wild flower seed as plug plants which will be planted onto the meadow with volunteer help. It is our long term aim to support other local wild flower projects too. If you would like to join us please get in …
We have started wild flower plug planting for the meadow. The plugs will enhance the lower 1/3 of the site which was planted with wildflower seed from Bell Sykes Coronation Meadow and Gait Barrows Reserve in Autumn 2020. Thank you to Lancaster City Council for use of the poly tunnel space. We are growing once …
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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