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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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

”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…