Projects - Tamar Valley National Landscape Tamar Valley National Landscape

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

TV063 - Rumleigh Farm

Organic Apple Juice Production – Developing and Maintaining our Traditional Heritage Tamar Apple Orchard

TV079 - Triangular Club Rush

Triangular Club-Rush Recovery Programme 2024

TV080 - Land at Harewood Farm

Through the planting of 145m hedgerow with hedgerow trees

TV082 - Landulph Orchard Group

Duchess Green Development - Biodiversity enhancement and ecological improvement to create an area that can be easily accessed by all to explore, enjoy and understand nature and the landscape.

TV083 - Todsworthy Farm

Create an accessible track from the traditional orchard and public footpath to an old established flower meadow in the next field which can then lead as a loop back onto the road.

TV084 - Hill Pony Resources

Planting 380m of new hedgerows with trees and sowing 534m2 wildflower areas.

TV085 - Long Meadow

Giving back to Nature

TV086 - NT Antony House

To provide a compost facility that will ensure we can best use the waste produce on this site.

TV087 - Ramsham Farm

Managing a farm boundary with a river to offer limited public access, increase in biodiversity, and containment of invasive Japanese knotweed in the area.

TV088 - The Flax Project

Modelling a nature friendly textile craft farm with weed suppression trials and habitat improvements

TV089 - Tamar Valley National Landscape

American skunk cabbage Survey & Control 2024

TV091 - Cornwall Wildlife Trust

Cornwall Wildlife Trust – Farming with Nature Plans

TV092 - Trevollard

Hedge & Water Quality management. Planting of fruit trees

TV094 - Tamara Landscape Partnership

Renovation of an existing run-down building, to serve as a storage and operations base for the Calstock Passenger Ferry.

TV095 - Tamar Valley National Landscape

The Tamar Valley National Landscape would like to install 20 new and replacement interpretation boards at various locations

TV099 - Greenwood Music

The management and improvement of temperate rainforest

TV100 - Steeky Meadow

Expand the facilities and access on site for the purposes of running outdoor educational and wellbeing session for groups

TV102 - Okel Tor

Tree surgery at Okel Tor Mine

TV103 - Ramsham Farm

Noticeboard and tethers for picnic table, benches and bins for project

TV104 - Hele Farm

Sediment ponds and traps to capture run off from farm tracks and road to reduce impact on Tamar tributary

TV105 - Wheal Farm

Habitat Enhancement & Wooden Field Gates

TV108 - Stokeclimsland Farm Cluster

Purchase and provision of Sward Lifter equipment to Stoke Climsland Farm Cluster

TV109 - Deer Park Farm

Physical measures to ‘Slow The Flow’ of high rainfall and soil erosion issues across parts of Deer Park Farm and its impacts on water quality into Luckett stream

TV031 - Tamar Valley AONB

Giant Hogweed Eradication Project

TV039 - National Trust - Buckland Abbey

The creation and restoration of hedgerows and improved interpretation for conservation and nature across Buckland Abbey gardens and estate

TV047 - Ferry Farm (Harewood)

Curriculum based Educational Visits at Ferry Farm for local schools and home-schooled groups. Open Farm Events.

TV048 - Harling Farm

Collaborative Gardens (bringing nature and humankind together)

TV049 - Brunsdon

Wildflowering & managing hedge fronting Church Hill

TV052 - Hele Farm

Sand Martin wall and improved nature habitats

TV053 - South Haylands

Habitat creation, habitat enhancement and navigating a sustainable farming business while hoping to inspire those outside of agriculture; at South Haylands Farm.

TV054 - Uphill Farm

To restore, preserve and enhance this old orchard to produce apples that will be turned into apple juice and cider for our wedding business and increase and improve the habitat for pollinators:

TV056 - Okel Tor

Vegetation management and permissive path maintenance at Okel Tor Mine.

TV057 - Warleigh Barton Farm

The Tamar and Tavy Osprey Project: A Journey to Regenerate Warleigh Barton and Provide Immersive Environmental Education for our Community.

TV058 - Old Solomans Farm

Habitat creation and water quality improvement at Old Solomons Farm.

TV059 - TGL

Improving access to and restoration of a traditional stone wall at Harrowbarrow and Metherell Community Vineyard.

TV060 - Phillips

Biodiversity enhancement at the show field, Latchley.

TV061 - South Hooe

This project will build on the first FiPL project (TV003) by bringing another 300m of hedges into our hedge laying cycle, enhancing these important features for wildlife.

TV062 - Pentillie

This two-day course will provide students with the skills they need to undertake hedge laying on their own farms or as part of their work.

TV064 - The Leys

Habitat protection and creation of ponds, mature trees, overgrown hedges and layered hedges at The Leys.

TV065 - Bickham Farm

Hedgerow improvements and protection and wildflower area creation around orchard.

TV066 - Pentillie

Surveys of various species of birds present on the Pentillie estate including natives, migrants, owls and birds of prey.

TV067 - TCT Calstock Wetlands

Interpretation board design and production for Calstock Wetlands.

TV068 - Elwell Gardens

Health and wellbeing for marginalised groups, revitalisation of the old orchard and planting adjacent to railway embankment

TV069 - TCT Wacker Quay

Management of trees at Wacker Quay as outlined in tree survey undertaken in November 2023.

TV070 - Okel Tor Mine

Path maintenance and mine chimney survey at Okel Tor Mine.

TV071 - Stoke Climsland Farm Cluster

Ecological baselines surveys for farm cluster members

TV072 - Tamar Valley National Landscape

Pollinator Habitat creation, baseline survey and community science.

TV073 - Rumleigh House

Reinstatement of historic small cherry orchard comprising a minimum of 20 Tamar Valley cherry trees and 6 Tamar pear trees.

TV074 - Little Clamoak

Planting 52m hedgerow with variety of native and other hedgerow trees and shrubs.

TV076 - Wheal Farm

Habitat creation & 4 Pastured poultry sustainable mobile field shelters

TV077 - Warleigh Barton

Warleigh Barton Tithe Barn Historic Building Restoration Grant – Surveys and reports

TV078 - Tamar Valley Wines

Vineyard and wildflower areas to improve the environment and habitat

TV009 - Tregaver

Stone wall restoration, fencing, orchard planting and tree planting.

TV016 - 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.

TV018 - 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.

TV021 - National Trust - Antony

Grass Land improvement and wildflower establishment. The objective of this project is to increase the area of lowland meadow in Cornwall.

TV025 - 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.

TV026 - 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.

TV027 - 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

TV028 - 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.

TV030 - Old Solomons Farm

To increase biodiversity and carbon sequestration on the farm

TV033 - 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.

TV034 - 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.

TV035 - Marsh Farm

Orchards at Landulph Reinstatement of two orchards comprising 60 local variety fruit trees within two fields at Landulph Farm.

TV036 - 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.

TV037 - 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.

TV038 - 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.

TV040 - 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

TV041 - 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

TV042 - 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

TV045 - 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.

TV001 - Clamoak Orchard

Tree planting, orchard creation and hedgerow planting.

TV002 - Cherry Lane Orchard

Orchard creation, meadow creation, fencing, access gateway, temporary structure for tool storage and shelter for volunteers and green prescribing.

TV003 - South Hooe

Bird hide, wildlife tower, hedge laying, woodland coppicing, hosting volunteer conservation work days, hedge planting, meadow creation, visitor car park works.

TV004/5 - Dupath Farm

Fencing and rubber matting for cattle handling improvements.

TV006 - Mill Lane Acre

Demonstration market garden and small machinery hub. Native wildflower and tree propagation for habitat restoration.

TV007 - 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.

TV010 - 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.

TV011 - 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.

TV012 - East Farm

Tree planting (standards, woodland and fruit), woodland management and enhancement, hay meadow restoration, pond creation and wildlife boxes installation.

TV014 - Denham Orchard

Orchard creation, fencing to protect current and new orchards.

TV015 - 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.

TV017 - 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.

TV020 - 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.

TV022 - 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.

TV023 - 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.

TV024 - 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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