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Farming in Protected Landscapes
Project Summaries
A complete list of Tamar Valley National Landscape projects undertaken with the support of the Farming in Protected Landscapes funding is provided below.
About FiPL
Year 4 - 2024 - 2025
Year 2 - 2022 - 2023
Berrator Farm
Wildlife habitat enhancement at Berrator Farm Improving water management by realignment of ditches, creating ponds, scrapes and leaky dams to the western edges of fields
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Blowiscombe Wood
Conservation and community engagement at Blowiscombe Wood Hedgerow laying, local varieties fruit orchard, tree management, hazel coppicing, watercourse maintenance, meadow restoration, tree planting, animal box installation and path building.
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Buctor Farm
Buctor Farm Soil Restoration Scheme The implementation of a rotational grazing and cattle management scheme, generating positive outcomes for wildlife, water quality, carbon sequestration and landscape amenity.
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Clamoak Farm
Hedge habitat restoration to improve diversity and reduce impact of views of pylons on the farm along with soil improvement through herbal leys. To reinstate 679m hedges that were removed in the past.
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Harlings Farm
Summary of proposal inc. proposed outputs Community hub, farm shop and café at Harlings To create a community hub, farm shop and café that provides a hub for the community from the local parishes
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Haye Farm
Haye Farm Landscape Protection and Enhancement Project Project to plant a new community orchard with 60 fruit trees accessible via a public and permissive footpath along with restoring and adding to an existing orchard.
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Hele Farm
Fencing off Tamar Tributary The project will fence off 375m of the stream, and lay 250m of water pipe infrastructure to install 3 new water troughs.
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Hingston Meadow
Habitat restoration and creation within Hingston Down Meadow woods. Woodland Management within Hingston Down Meadow woods 2.37 hectares to create rides and manage the woodland to create different habitats.
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Kelly Lime Kiln
Renovation of Lower Kelly/Danescombe limekiln and incline plane at Lower Kelly, Calstock Removal of vegetation, structural survey and consolidation/renovation of Grade II Listed lime kiln
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Lowertown Farm
To protect and enhance hedges and earth bank repairs. To extend area where sand martins are nesting in a farmyard barn. To plant successional fruit trees in existing orchard.
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Marsh Farm
Orchards at Landulph Reinstatement of two orchards comprising 60 local variety fruit trees within two fields at Landulph Farm.
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National Trust - Antony
Grass Land improvement and wildflower establishment. The objective of this project is to increase the area of lowland meadow in Cornwall.
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Newton Farm
Conservation grazing trial using NoFence collars Nofence cattle collars on three Ruby Red Devon cattle will enable controlled grazing around the Newton Farm and enable the Farm to show case this emerging technology as a method of habitat creation.
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Pentille Estate & Castle
Hedge & Parkland Improvements To build hedge laying skills within the Tamar Valley community by offering two, two-day courses in hedge laying during winter 2023.
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Terwint Produce
Development of traditional land skills and biodiversity enhancement on the market Garden at Trewint farm Creating a fenced mixed hedgerow perimeter of with native tree and shrubs, creating a pond habitat, developing agroforestry via alley cropping alongside restoration of a small traditional farm building
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Tinnel Farm
Orchard and Hedgerow replanting with fruit bearing trees Within the Clifton Orchard – To replant an ancient fruit orchard at Clifton and plant flowering and fruit bearing trees on hedgerows for the benefit of wildlife, and to enhance the landscape.
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Wheal Farm
Habitat creation and sustainable power supply for water pumping and processing equipment Planting of a new orchard of 30 mixed species local variety fruit trees creating a new habitat on the farm.
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Bohetherick
Education sheds to enable further farm access by visiting educational groups and volunteers. Farming in Tamar Valley interpretation boards, fencing of permissive path, farm trail, pollinator strip and woodland edge management.
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Cherry Lane Orchard
Orchard creation, meadow creation, fencing, access gateway, temporary structure for tool storage and shelter for volunteers and green prescribing.
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Deerpark Farm
Creation of a wildlife rich and bio-diverse habitat within a 3 acre meadow with spring fed pond feature, offering spread permissive access, educational, health and wellbeing resource. Furthering the opportunities of local walkers to explore alternative linear permissive paths within historic mining sites, linking with an established route (known locally as Apple Way) with the main Discovery Trail, planting of a small community fruit orchard.
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East Farm
Tree planting (standards, woodland and fruit), woodland management and enhancement, hay meadow restoration, pond creation and wildlife boxes installation.
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Facey’s Meadow
Apple Tree family biodiversity assessment ‘baby’ trial (i.e. selected family groups of seedlings on semi dwarf rootstocks for ease and speed of assessment). Proposal is to use the trial orchard for participatory learning, training, and research – linked to understanding about crop biodiversity, training linked agronomic assessment in relation to breeding and selection. Project includes fencing, pond restoration and drainage works.
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Harewood Farm
Traditional Hay meadow and hedgerow conservation plan including planting new hedges, hedge laying, tree planting and enabling conservation grazing regime through stock fencing.
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Harlings Farm
Access tracks in woodland and meadow for differently abled visitor groups, wildflower oversowing, management of species-rich grassland and woodland, installation of wildlife boxes and natural beehive.
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Hele Farm
Cattle tracks to reduce surface wash and soil compaction and extend grazing area / grazing period and reduced housing costs and associated carbon costs. Pond creation alongside water course.
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Higher Woodley
Enhancing water management by roofing over the collecting yard and stoning gateways adjacent, soil testing in years 1 and 3, enhancing and connecting wildlife habitats by planting new hedgerows connecting a variety of habitats, planting to include fruit and hedgerow trees with associated fences where none. Planting of ‘in-field’ broadleaf trees. Managing existing mature woodland.
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Mill Lane Acre
Demonstration market garden and small machinery hub. Native wildflower and tree propagation for habitat restoration.
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National Trust – Cotehele
Creating and maintaining Lowland Meadows and maintaining Reedbeds across the Cotehele Estate and beyond through purchase of pool of small scale meadow management machinery which will ultimately be a shared resource across this area of the valley.
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South Hooe
Bird hide, wildlife tower, hedge laying, woodland coppicing, hosting volunteer conservation work days, hedge planting, meadow creation, visitor car park works.
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Rose Farm
Nature trail land management. To effectively manage the woodland and scrub for biodiversity to create meandering footpaths (rides) with small clearings to encourage plant, animal and fungal diversity.
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