To accompany our online series of Festival Bowland events, we've put together links to further information or films presented as part of those events, either as an opportunity to re-visit or for reference if you weren't able to join the event.
24th November: Meet the Artist
10th October: How to Create and Maintain Mini Meadows and Pollinator Patches
Recording from an event delivered by members of the National Landscape team and volunteers.
• Grow Wild have a useful resource for finding native wildflower seeds to purchase: https://www.growwilduk.com/where-get-uk-native-wildflower-seeds-plants
23rd September: An Introduction to Rewilding and Futurescapes
Recording from an event delivered by Professor Ian Rotherham.
22nd September - A Seasonal Foraged Feast
With Dominique Ashford, Dale House.
- Film of Dish 1: Smoked Trout
- Film of Dish 2: Roast Pigeon
- Film of Dish 3: Plum & Rosehip Frangipane
- Recipes
20th September - Herbal Medicine Forage
With Danielle Kay, Medical Herbalist.
- Foraging Film 1
- Foraging Film 2
- Film of how to make Hedgerow Cyder
- Film of how to make Elderberry Rob
- Recipes
- Autumn Online Courses
16th September: Travelleing with Romans: Lancashire's Roman Roads
Recording from an event delivered by David Ratledge.
- More information and research can be found here: http://www.twithr.co.uk/
15th September: Hidden Nature of the Ribble
Recording from an event delivered by Helen Smith, Community Engagement Officer for the Ribble Rivers Trust.
8th September: Re-establishing Black Grouse into the Bowland Fells
Recording from an event delivered by Dr Philip Warren, senior scientist with Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust.
25th August: Freedom to Roam – How Industrial Lancashire shaped the British Countryside Movement
- Darwen Tower 'The Freeing of the Moors' video (Northern Heart Films): https://vimeo.com/366221016
- Prestwich Artisan Naturalists page and videoe: https://vimeo.com/366221016
- A history of the right to roam campaign can be found on the Kinder Trespass website: http://kindertrespass.org.uk/kinder-mass-trespass-history/
- Further reading:
- Paul Salveson – 'Will Yo' Come O' Sunday Mornin? The Winter Hill Mass Trespass of 1896: Tom Stephenson 'Forbidden Land': The Struggle for Access to Mountain and Moorland' (Manchester University Press, 1989) http://www.paulsalveson.org.uk/
- Douglas George Hope ' Thomas Arthur Leonard and the Co-operative Holidays Association' (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017)
13th August: Peat Dams & Plug Planting: restoring Bowland's Blanket Bog
- Find out more about what the Forest of Bowland National Landscape's peat restoration work: https://www.forestofbowland.com/peatland-restoration
22nd July: Lost Woods, Shadow Woods
Recording from an event delivered by Professor Ian Rotherham.
4th July - Hay Meadow Day
- Film of Meadow Day Introduction
- Film of Species ID
- Film of Hay Meadow Restoration
- Film of Hay Meadow Later Flowering Species
- Film of Hay Meadow Pollinators
- Film created in 2017 by Pendle Movie Makers about Meadows Day can be viewed at the bottom of this page: https://www.forestofbowland.com/Hay-Time-Project-0
- There are lots of great resources online for ID and spotters sheets for wildflowers and pollinators – here are just a few:
- Find out more information about meadow restoration in the Forest of Bowland National Landscape here: https://www.forestofbowland.com/Hay-Time-Project-0