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We're calling on wildlife-friendly farmers, landowners and tenants to help us grow vanishing species of wildflowers | Cumbria Wildlife Trust (www.cumbriawildlifetrust.org.uk)

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust is seeking to recruit the help of nature-friendly farmers and landowners in the south of the county to boost the declining number of grassland wildflowers and plants in Cumbria. We aim to re-introduce rarer species to suitable sites, particularly in the Windermere and Ambleside areas.

In a two-year project, up to 40,000 plants will be grown at our nursery at Gosling Sike near Carlisle. Working alongside landowners, we'll then add a variety of these plug plants to South Lakeland sites and help the landowners provide the best conditions for them to prosper.

The scheme will provide participating farmers and other landowners with botanical surveys, soil testing, plug plants, and a management plan, all free of charge.* Farmers, foresters and land managers can use these to help them look after and improve the environment. They can also be used to support and inform applications for Countryside Stewardship (CS) schemes and Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) schemes.

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