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Exploring the life of the meadow
What lives in the meadow? That was the question for experts, volunteers and visitors at Hermitage Field’s first Bioblitz on 9 July. Wildlife watchers – both experts and novices –…
Summer Bioblitzing
Join us for a fun event in Hermitage Field Community Meadow on Sunday 9 July between 1.00 and 4.00pm. We’ll be finding and recording as many living things as we…
Celebrating the Coronation
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…
Sign of the times!
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…
Keeping their cool
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…
Guided Meadow Walk, Saturday 1 July
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…
Help us plant wildflowers!
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…
Going for Growth
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…
Seeding The Meadow With Help From the Bowland Haytime Project
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…