What's New
The National Wildflower Centre has secured £200,000 of funding from the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) towards its plan to build a new educational, conference and seed production complex. The scheme, designed by Manchester-based Ian Simpson Architects, faced a public consultation meeting on 20 November before a planning application can be submitted.
Richard Tracey, head of environmental quality, NWDA said: "The aspiration to produce a new educational and visitor facility that will engage young people in exploring mathematics and science through wildflowers is an admirable and exciting one which has a potentially strong resonance with the agency's environmental quality and skills agenda." more (link to site)
Landlife's Great Outdoors project based at the National Wildflower Centre was thrilled to be one of the lucky winners at the Merseyside Transport awards on Tuesday 13th October 2009, winning the WalkWise Award for best walking initiative or achievement. More
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Landlife’s soil inversion technique to increase biodiversity has been crowned the winner of this year's Merseyside Innovation Awards, beating fellow finalists Isothermal Technology and Industrial Purification Systems. The business scooped the award at a ceremony held at Liverpool's Crowne Plaza Hotel in front of 150 people.
Landlife will
now receive a £10,000 cash prize plus £4,000 worth of legal, business,
accounting or design consultancy; support from some of the region's leading
business advisers; and publicity for the idea.
Grant Luscombe, chief executive of Landlife, said: "In Liverpool's Year
of
the Environment, it is fantastic to get this recognition. With this money
and advice we can look at the intellectual property rights around this,
which we could not have done before." The winner was judged by a panel
that included Trevor Baylis, the inventor of the Clockwork Radio, Professor
Murray Dalziel from the University of Liverpool and Steve Smith, ICT
director at Liverpool Vision.
The awards aim to recognise and reward the use of innovation as a means of
boosting growth and profitability. They are sponsored by Insider, Vanguard,
Alliance Fund Managers, Amatica, BBC Radio Merseyside, Brabners Chaffe Street,
Business Link, Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, Paver Smith, RBS/Natwest, RTC
Northwest, The University of Liverpool Business Gateway and WP Thompson. See
our Projects page for details of our
Soil Inversion work.
For more information contact luscombe@landlife.org.uk
or telephone
Grant Luscombe or Richard Scott on 0151 737 1819
Landlife Wildflowers has a unique special offer. Vouchers can be purchased from £5 to £25 pounds. This offer includes a Landlife Wildflowers Gift Voucher, Plant and Seed Catalogue and the Wildlife Gardening Booklet. Buy online here.
Also - A brand new seed mix for 2010 'Gardener's Double Delight' more here.
Don't forget to follow our youtube channel and view our latest video.
Landlife Conservation Channel.
National Wildflower Centre Channel.
National
Wildflower Centre
The centre is now open for conferencing.
and our award winning demonstration areas and visitor centre are now open.
The Cornflower Cafe is open 10.am - 4.pm and offers delicious hot and cold
meals, and there's now a new 2010
events leaflet full of creative nature events.
From food growing to creating meadows, arts workshops and foody events.
For more information on the National Wildflower Centre, founded by Landlife
visit www.nwc.org.uk or phone 0151 738
1913
New building
design competition.
Thursday 29th April 10.am - 5.pm
A one day practical workshop aimed at DIY enthisiasts, community organisations and small scale builders. The workshop will be taught by leading green roof experts Dusty Gedge and John Little. More (pdf)
Telephone 0151 737 1819 or
email Richard Scott.
Knowsley
Green Fayre 7th June 2009
Great
Outdoors ran a Health & Wellbeing marquee for the second
year at our hugely popular Knowlsley Green Fayre, in partnership with Knowsley
MBC. We are also working for health at the Knowsley Flower Show on August
9th.
Set amongst our beautiful summer wildflower displays, healthy physical activities from walking, cycling, gardening, and wildlife spotting were promoted to encourage better understanding of how nature can improve our health and wellbeing.
Knowsley Target: Wellbeing projects Pedal Away and NHS Knowsley were with us in the marquee and there was a storytelling walk about Court Hey Park's Gladstone family heritage.
Knowsley Green Fayre also celebrated BBC Breathing Places and Springwatch Project's Dirty Weekend. Our Dirty Weekend activities aim to get people doing more to help nature - and to learn how nature helps us too! For more information.
A spark of imagination to mark your inspiration from nature and prepare for
the UN International Year of Biodiversity in 2010. More details.
Soil
Inversion Works
Our technical publication Soil Inversion Works is now available as a download
with updated research and practical landscape applications for this groundbreaking
creative conservation approach.
Over 35 sites have now been created nationally, many using soil inversion,
and we are keen to share our experience of the benefits of this technique,
particularly for introducing native wildflowers into new woodlands. For
more information on Soil Inversion
For printed versions of the publication please call Landlife on 0151 737 1819 or info@landlife.org.uk
For pdf version of Soil Inversion Works.
In our five year strategy for 2007-12, we have set out our key priorities
and the action we will take to achieve these. You can download here or contact info@landlife.org.uk for a printed version
A new
natural attraction
for St.Helens
Wildflower fields at Inglenook Farm, Rainford, St Helens are supporting the Council's sustainable rural business strategy with an exciting project to develop a new farm attraction. Our trading business Landlife Wildflowers is bringing its wildflower production fields to Ingleook Farm off the A570, just outside Rainford village, and linking with the National Wildflower Centre in Knowsley.
Wildflower Field-Inglenook Farm
The first phase
saw 12 hectares (30 acres) sown with annuals and perennials this year and
we plan to sow additional fields in Spring 2009. Inglenook Farm is also the
new home of Phytobotanica, a small
business leading the UK field in the production of organic essential oils.
They are leasing the farmhouse and outbuildings together with land at the
farm to develop a new National Essential Oil Farm and Research Centre.
The farmhouse is the new base for its Hygeia School of Holistic Therapies.
More information
on our new National Wildflower Farm
Or contact Janet Pell jpell@landlife.org.uk
or call 0151 737 1819
Guardian newspaper Obituary here.
