Year 4: Approved Projects
The following projects were approved in year 4 of the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme (March 2024 - March 2025).
Project reference | Project Name | Project description | FiPL grant awarded | Date awarded |
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DNP-FPL-294 | Welltown Farm | Creation of approx. 1.4Ha wildflower meadow, as well as laying and casting up 150m of previously flail trimmed hedges and the creation of a ‘gold-plated' hedgerow on western boundary. | £7,401.11 | 18/04/2024 |
DNP-FPL-295 | Thorn Farm | 12 No Fence Collars to target areas of dense Molinia to break up the thatch and allow smaller dwarf shrubs to thrive, and to exclude cattle from vulnerable areas for protection from grazing. This project includes a baseline ecological survey of the cattle's lear in the East Dartmoor SSSI, and of Thorn Farm itself. | £4,769.50 | 02/05/2024 |
DNP-FPL-296 | Narracombe Farm 3 | To continue delivering education sessions to local children with ages ranging from 5–15. Allowing them to come and connect with nature, be involved in looking after the natural environment and learning the importance of the natural habitat on Dartmoor. | £9,075 | 08/05/2024 |
DNP-FPL-297 | Healthy Livestock Healthy Commons Project | This project will build on two pilot livestock health projects in order to increase the resilience of livestock on the common to environmental challenges, building on the use of vitamin B12 injection and ascertain if there is any impact on tick borne diseases and record tick findings. The project will also help to understand the impact of popular acaricides on adult dung beetle populations to inform a Commons Health Management Plan. | £46,722.62 | 08/05/2024 |
DNP-FPL-306 | Torhill Farm 2 | Creating stockproof enclosed area around existing wildlife pond with new hedge and planting 50 trees to create a wet woodland area. Additionally, planting infield trees in 4 land parcels to increase biodiversity and planting additional trees in an area that is being converted to wood pasture. | £9,455.25 | 09/05/2024 |
DNP-FPL-298 | Great Sloncombe Farm 2 | To restore four wooden gateways with granite gateposts and install hard bases for 10 water troughs to stop cattle poaching the ground around their existing troughs and damaging the soil. This will also allow a low-input paddock cattle grazing system to be adopted across part of the farm. | £8,962.46 | 13/05/2024 |
DNP-FPL-304 | Bowden Moor & Fields | Habitat management on a site that is important for Marsh Fritillary Butterflies, historic leat restoration and control of cattle grazing at Bowden Moor. | £8,882.12 | 16/05/2024 |
DNP-FPL-310 | Farm Wilder 2 | A project to monitor biodiversity on a selection of Farm Wilder’s Dartmoor farms, using volunteer experts to help farmers engage with and record wildlife themselves. | £9,923 | 06/06/2024 |
DNP-FPL-312 | Teign Valley Farm Cluster | A project to support the Teign Valley Farm Cluster after their successful Facilitation Fund bid. This includes helping the group to develop a website, projector equipment for farm cluster meetings and workshops, and the purchase of species surveying equipment. | £8,672.29 | 06/06/2024 |
DNP-FPL-313 | Bury the Giant 2 | The Art and Energy collective plan to deliver an education and engagement project in The Green Futures fields of Glastonbury Festival, helping a wider range of people to understand the value of Dartmoor’s peatlands and opportunities for nature-based solutions to benefit society. FiPL supported the delivery of this, enabling them to promote the value of protected landscapes, and how we can respond and mitigate the impacts of climate change. | £2,945 | 19/06/2024 |