With the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund the Flora Fields learning and volunteering programme started in autumn 2013 and continued until the end of 2014. There were four main strands to the programme:
- Learning activities for children in local primary schools and in Flora;
- A series of public lectures in the Storey Institute and associated visits to Flora and other wildlife sites which will be open to all;
- Training for volunteers to help them to maintain the reserve;
- An end-of-project two-day public exhibition in Lancaster City Centre about Flora, its heritage and the Fairfield Association’s longer-term plans for conserving and managing the Flora reserve.
Slides for each lecture can be accessed below as PDF files. There are also accompanying audio files for most of the lectures.
Lecture slides
- The Fairfield Association and Flora: Past, Present, Plans and Possibilities (Mick and Hilary Short, 19/09/2013, 3.35 MB) Fairfield Lecture Audio (26.6 MB)
- Conservation Grazing and Meadow Restoration Bill Grayson, 03/10/2013, (23.6 MB) Conservation Audio (27.6 MB)
- Wildlife Evening (Various, 17/10/2013, 150 KB) Wildlife Lecture Audio (10 MB)
- The Agricultural History of South Lancaster, with Special Reference to Flora (Mike Derbyshire, 14/11/2013, 16.2 MB) History Lecture Audio (44 MB)
- Growing up at Carr House Farm (Members of the Loxam family, 28/11/2013, 454 KB) Carr House Farm Audio (59 MB)
- White Park Cattle and Other Heritage Breeds (Fraser Granell-Watson, 23/01/2014, 4.2 MB) White Cattle Lecture Audio (49.3 MB)
- The Honey Bee – does it have a future? (Fred Ayres, Lancaster Bee Keepers, 13/02/14, 1.2 MB) Honey Bee Lecture Audio (34 MB)
- Local History Research (Mike Derbyshire, 06/03/2014, 7.5 MB) Local History Lecture Audio (44 MB)
- Hedgerows and Hedgerow Trees, their Wildlife and Landscape Value (Walk led by Tarja Wilson, 08/03/2014, Handout 84 KB)
- Organisms and Ecology of Flora and Fauna (Chris Workman, 27/03/2014, 12.7 MB) Organisms Lecture Audio (94 MB)
- Invasive Aliens! (Keith Jones, 15/05/2014, 18.3 MB)
- What Lies Beneath the Fields? (Ian Sharpe and Ken Sedgwick, 18/09/2014, 7.35 MB) What Lies Beneath Lecture Audio (43 MB)
- How the Fairfield Nature Reserve is Managed (Claire Harris, 02/10/2014, 2.2 MB) How Fairfield Reserve is Managed Lecture Audio (54 MB)
- Birds in Fairfield Nature Reserve (Ian Nieduszynski , 16/10/2014, 1.6 MB) Birds Lecture Audio ( 64 MB)
- The Story of Fairfield from Pre-history to Today – Online Prezi Presentation (Ruth Jenkins , 23/10/2014) Pre-history to Today Lecture Audio (62 MB)
- A presentation of Fairfield related resources held by the Archives NOT FOUND (Vicci McCann , 12/03/2015, 8 MB) Local Archives Lecture Audio (57 MB)
- Birdwatching in the nature reserve: Which birds to look for and how to recognize them, including their calls (Ian Nieduszynski and Jon Carter, 26/03/15, 6 MB) Birdwatching Lecture Audio (57 MB)
- Butterflies, their life-cycle and how we can support and enjoy them (Tom Dunbar, 07/04/16, 3 MB) (Podcast missing)
- A Virtual Walk Around Fairfield Nature Reserve (01/12/16, 18 MB) Virtual Walk Lecture Transcript (195 KB)
- Bird Migration to Fairfield (Ian Nieduszynski , 09/11/17, 3.5 MB)
- Fairfield’s Wetlands (Oliver Fulton, Sue Nieduszynska & Graham Brandwood, 25/01/18, 6.8 MB)
Flora Events 2013-2014
The following four leaflets, available as PDFs, detail the events held over the period.