Contractors

Buckfastleigh, Ashburton, South Brent and Princetown areas – mini or large bales

Cut, turn and baling services. Landowner can keep the bales or we can take the bales.

Contact Lee Bright on 07432 680340

Chagford area – small or large bales

Cut, turn and baling services

Email Mikenorthway69@icloud.com

01647 433382 or 07788 745708

Cutting and Baling across West & South Devon and all of Cornwall

Cutting & Baling

Cut and collect to remove the cuttings to the edge or some area off the meadows; baling service available in future.  Can cut on steep ground.  Working across West & South Devon and all of Cornwall.

Contact details: admin@hillssouthwest.co.uk,  phone Alec Hill on 07974 187594 or Zak Hill on 07974 187570.

hillssouthwest.co.uk

Teignbridge and South Hams – mini bales

Specialising in cutting and baling smaller meadows. Adrian has a chain harrow, hay bob, compact tractor and mini round baler and can access smaller gateways.

Green haying service also available, including site preparation.

Adrian Ball – 07511 911124

Botanical surveys, woodland management plans, whole farm/land conservation management plans, bird surveys

• Botanical surveys (all habitats) including short report writing and management suggestions. I can also do bryophyte work.
• Woodland management plans
• Whole farm/land conservation management plans
• Bird surveys -including setting up transects etc

Contact Mike Ingram: wild.ingram@btinternet.com

Mike Ingram is a highly skilled botanist with a background in conservation, covering traditional woodland and farming management practices, including meadow creation and restoration.

Devon Habitat Services

Devon Habitat Services

Phone Tom: 07890 811 112

Email: tom@devonhabitatservices.co.uk

https://www.devonhabitatservices.co.uk

Devon Wildlife Consultants

Provides a wide range of ecological services. A professional ecologist will visit your site and provide you with a botanical survey and a management plan. The cost is flexible depending on the level of advice required, but expect £30 per hour or £225 per day for non-development work. DWC gift aids its profits to support the Wildlife Trust’s charitable work. It works with a wide range of clients including community groups and private individuals.

For further information contact Li-Li Williams on 01392 455930 or lwilliams@devonwildlifetrust.org

Hannah Gibbons, Ecologist, botanical & habitat surveys, plant ID

Hannah Gibbons is an ecologist and has been working in the conservation sector for 16 years and for the majority of that time has been working for charities (such as DWT and RSPB) carrying out botanical and habitat surveys.  Since 2011 she has been running training courses on plant identification and has run several workshops for Moor Meadows.  Hannah has been involved in grassland restoration / creation works through green hay / seed application since 2016 and has  carried out annual monitoring surveys of restored sites in North Devon for DWT. She has assisted with Mid Tier and Higher Tier applications in the past and when working for DBRC surveyed a huge number of County Wildlife Sites. In 2015 she was awarded Field Identification Skills Certificate (FISC) Level 6 (‘Excellent ID skills’).

You can contact Hannah on 07889 800922 or by email to ilovemoss@hotmail.com

 

John Walters

John is a Dartmoor-based naturalist. You may have seen him on Springwatch or Hugh’s Wild West or many other nature programmes. John is co-author and illustrator of The Wildlife of Dartmoor and he can carry out an ecological survey for you, looking for butterflies, moths, crickets, beetles and flies. He will follow up with a list of what he’s found so you have a snapshot record of the life in your meadow.

Charges: £150

To book John for a summer survey (May-June), email studio@johnwalters.co.uk

Sue Everett

Meadow restoration and creation consultant, Sue Everett, is an ecologist specialising in wildlife habitat restoration, especially restoring and creating wildflower grasslands at the large and small scales, conservation site management and farm environment planning.

Contact Sue at meadowmaker@gmail.com or phone 07779 204015.

Susan Searle

I am an ecological consultant specialising in habitat management, management plans, botanical surveys, habitat mapping, training, guided walks, bat work and protected species work. Sue’s number is 07818 073660 Email: ecologytraininguk@gmail.com

ecologytraining.co.uk

Gary Bartlett’s Fencing and Gates

Our work capabilities are:
All types of fencing. We can source chestnut stakes. Small tractor available for loader work, include mucking out low roof barns. Flail topping of heavy growth. Including gorse. We have a 1.6 tonne digger. So digger works to include ground levelling, drainage and ditching.

The area we can cover is south Dartmoor or an hour’s drive from TQ12 6LE. Phone Gary Bartlett on 07739363503 or email bartletts.fgs@gmail.com

Autumn/winter sheep grazing – Manaton and beyond

Autumn/winter sheep grazing available. Based in Manaton but can travel across the moor.

Call Kieron on 01647 221476.

Grazing with Shetland and Jacob sheep

As well as keeping bees which Peter is happy to put on members land to assist with pollination of your wildflower meadows, he also has a small flock of very tame Shetland and Jacob sheep which he keeps for wool. These could be loaned out to Moor Meadows members at no cost.

Peter Hunt can be contacted on 01647440322 or email peter@beesindevon.co.uk

Winter grazing with Dexter cattle – Aish area

We have a small herd of Dexter cattle available for winter grazing anywhere within a 10 mile radius of Aish (Coordinates E 269476N 060701 Grid ref SX 694 607). Nearest postcode TQ10 9JQ. We can provide fencing and water solutions. It’s all free in the name of conservation. More information at fb.me/CowsinClover or send us a message at m.me/CowsinClover. Or email Desley White at desley@cowsinclover.co.uk

Chagford area

Contact Mike Northway. Email Mikenorthway69@icloud.com or call 01647 433382 or 07788 745708.

Chris Bond

Dry stone walling, fencing, pond making, flail mowing.

Call Chris Bond on 07748 037780

stonewalling-hedgelaying.co.uk

Dry stone waller, hedge layer and wildlife pond creator

Kieran Fitzgerald at Bushwhackers in Manaton has a swing shovel for larger jobs and is an excellent dry stone waller, hedge layer and has created a wildlife pond for one member. He does quite a lot of work for Devon Wildlife and the Park and is well used to complying with grant assisted projects where necessary.

Kieran can be contacted on 01647 221476 or by email bushwhackers@tiscali.co.uk

Hedge Laying and Dry Stone Walling

My name is Joseph Orpen and I’m accredited with the National Hedgelaying Society and have successfully completed the Devon Rural Skills Trust training programme. I also specialise in Devon bank repairs, including stone and turf, as well as Cornish Hedges and Dry Stone Walls. I have professional experience in laying hedges for both grant funded field boundaries as well as private gardens.

As a professional hedgelayer I’m competent in numerous regional styles including Devon, Dorset, Midlands and North Somerset.

I’m based just outside of Newton Ferrers in South Devon.

To discuss your requirements and receive a quotation please contact me on the below mobile or email.

Email – info@ruralcraftsbyjoseph.com
Mobile – 07488396964
Insta – @rural.crafts.by.joseph

ruralcraftsbyjoseph.com

Hedge laying and training

Steven McCulloch has been a professional hedge layer since 2005 and competing in hedge laying matches since 2011. He is 2 times National Champion (Devon class).

He has expertise in 3 different hedge laying styles and will advise on the most suitable style for the type of hedge and your needs. All of his work will satisfy the requirements of the hedge laying schemes from Natural England. Steven can also offer a consultation service for hedge laying grants, identifying suitability of hedges and the best hedge laying grant elements that can be applied for. He is also a qualified trainer.

Steven can be contacted on 07800710599

devonhedgelayer.co.uk

Hedge laying, planting, small tree work, coppicing and habitat management

Stuart can help you with hedge laying, planting, small tree work, coppicing and habitat management. Contact him on 07968 451730 or by email at stuartlandart@googlemail.com.

Hedgelaying & Scything in Cornwall

Sylva & Scythe

Young agroecological landworker based near Liskeard, Cornwall, with a passion for supporting beautiful biodiverse landscapes that nourish people and place. My partner Sarah and I offer:

– Hedgelaying in both Cornish//Devon and Midlands style

– Scything of meadows, orchards, gardens and scrub

– Sustainable woodland management including coppicing, continuous cover forestry and tree planting

Please contact Hannan Currah on 07807306131, or at sylvaandscythe@gmail.com, for ecologically sound management of your land.

Meadow creator & scything

My name is Ross and I run my gardening business Abundant Gardens from Totnes. My aim is to help bring gardens to life. As part of that I can help people to establish and maintain wildflower meadows. I maintain meadows by scything and I run courses if people are wanting to learn. I also offer hedgelaying.

Email ross@abundantgardens.uk or Phone 07811 608359

abundantgardens.uk

Proper Edges

We specialise in a range of rural skills including hedge laying, hedge bank repair, dry stone walling and scything, as well as making quality cleft chestnut gates. We also run hedge laying and scythe courses and offer one to one training.

Contact Jeremy Weiss on 07962 432317 or jeremydweiss@yahoo.co.uk

properedges.com

Ross Gray

Ross is a craft hedgelayer for Dartmoor and South and West Devon.

Call 01822 890332.

Scything workshop instructor, Mike Ingram

I run scythe training workshops, for beginners through to refresher courses, for up to 8 participants.  I provide light-weight Austrian scythes for people to trial on the workshop. I have my own Public Liability Insurance.

Contact: Mike Ingram wild.ingram@btinternet.com

The Hillyfield Woodland farm – Tree Surgeon & woodland management advice

We are an environmentally sensitive woodland management project on Dartmoor engaged in all aspects of wood-work from woodland management to making timber framed building (and everything in between). In 2018 we were awarded the Dartmoor Society Award, and Silver at the Excellence in Forestry Awards held by the Royal Forestry Society.

If you want help with managing your woods contact Doug on tel: 07976589927
Facebook Page is @thehillyfieldwoodlandfarm

 

thehillyfield.co.uk

Tree management across West & South Devon and all of Cornwall

All aspects of woodland management, tree surgery, scrub/invasive weed clearance and strimming work.  Extensive experience of managing woods for The Woodland Trust.  Working across West & South Devon and all of Cornwall.

Contact details: admin@hillssouthwest.co.uk,  phone Alec Hill on 07974 187594 or Zak Hill on 07974 187570.

hillssouthwest.co.uk

Tree surgeon – Tom Oxton

Tom’s work includes all aspects of tree surgery, woodland management, scrub clearance and strimming work. He also has access to a tractor with a topper and or flail.

Contact Tom on 07827 705062

Tree Surgeons & Woodland Managament

As well as carrying out Arboriculture we also specialise in woodland management for conservation. We provide woodland management plans which focus on enhancing biodiversity and creating habitats (not for commercial timber sales/forestry). We also offer Arboricultural Consultancy services for risk management and condition of trees. We carry out decay assessments using specialist equipment and can also advise or carry out soil remediation to trees which are under stress.

Contact Aran Kimberlee – BSc (Hons) Arboriculture, M Arbor A, PTI
Professional Tree Contracting and Consultancy

Telephone: 01364 72804 Mobile: 07594 680168 Email: aran@dartforesttrees.co.uk

dartforesttrees.co.uk

Woodland Design, Creation and Grant Applications/Orchard Establishment

Doug Lane has many years experience in wildlife habitat creation and sustainable land management.

For a site consultation call Doug on 07854 098 004 or email douggylane@hotmail.com

Devon Habitat Services

Devon Habitat Services can help with the practical and planning aspects of land management, from hedgelaying, scrub clearance, woodland management, invasives control, fencing etc to management plans, habitat surveys and grant applications.

Phone Tom: 07890 811 112

Email: tom@devonhabitatservices.co.uk

https://www.devonhabitatservices.co.uk

Farm Conservation Adviser

Sally Hope Johnson is a farm conservation adviser with over 20 years experience and lives and works out of South Brent. Her core work is in environmental grant schemes with general farming and conservation advice.

Sally is happy to advise any landowners (big or small) on environmental schemes or general habitat and species management.

Sally can be contacted on 07980 732675.

Specialist Meadow Contracting in the Totnes, Kingsbridge, Ivybridge area.

Harrowing and overseeding using a specially designed scarifying harrow and seeder to restore grassland or establish wild flower species into grassland. Also mowing with conventional flail mower or cut/collect using a flail collector.
Contact jeremy@jeremymburgess.com

Wildflower Meadow Establishment/Wildlife Habitat Creation/Edible Landscaping

Doug Lane has many years experience in sustainable land management.

For a site consultation call Doug on 07854 098004 or email douggylane@hotmail.com

Advice on Bees and Drones for aerial photography

Phil is always happy to give help and free advice to people who have bee questions, whether honeybee or otherwise, whether it’s a swarm in the chimney or a tree, or a question of identification, or the location of hives, etc.

He also has a couple of decent drones (or quadcopters, as they are more properly known) with decent 4K cameras for aerial photography, and would be happy to take some meadow footage, in exchange for a donation to Friends of the Bees.

Phil Chandler can be contacted on 07891 554 012 or by email beesontoast@gmail.com

friendsofthebees.org

John Walters

John is a Dartmoor-based naturalist. You may have seen him on Springwatch or Hugh’s Wild West or many other nature programmes. John can carry out an ecological survey for you, looking for butterflies, moths, crickets, beetles and flies. He will follow up with a list of what he’s found so you have a snapshot record of the life in your meadow.

Charges: £150

To book John for a summer survey (May-June), email studio@johnwalters.co.uk

Wide range of Wildlife Surveys

Kari offers a wide range of survey types, including bat, badger, dormouse and botanical surveys, for both planning and biodiversity enhancement. She has 10 years practical conservation management and tutoring experience, in addition to her ecology skills. She is also a public speaker and gives talks on bat/dormouse ecology and habitat management and bat/dormouse rescue and rehabilitation. Kari also runs courses on hedgelaying and tree planting days on request.

Kari’s bat and dormouse rescue is www.middevonbatrescue

Kari Bettoney BSc (Hons) ACIEEM Phone: 07762 051481 Email:  kari@wildlifesurveying.co.uk

wildlifesurveying.co.uk