The Dartmoor Farmers Association are seeking to build on a very successful pilot project, aiming to deliver an additional 25 bespoke and engaging educational 'Farm to Fork' school visits for children. This will provide a unique opportunity for school children to visit and experience a farm on Dartmoor. At least 11 farms will be hosting and delivering the 25 school visits. The visits focus on increasing children’s understanding of where their food comes from, as well as the critical links between farming and nature.

A project aiming to improve Shallowford Farm’s engagement and interpretation by increasing farm familiarisation before a school visit, and addressing an existing issue of pre-visit anxiety. This includes updating their ‘Countryside Code’ poster which is used for every visiting school group, a new brand guide and logo, standardised signage for farm buildings, an engaging farm map and improved promotional/educational leaflets. This project will help to contextualise and understand where children will be visiting ahead of signing up, and reduce the fear of the unknown.

This project seeks to secure wildfire mitigation equipment that will enable continued habitat management and effective wildfire prevention on Mary Tavy common. With the recognised increase in fire load across the Dartmoor commons, the risk to the habitat from uncontrolled wildfires is significantly heightened. This equipment to be used by the commoners in the case of a wildfire, alongside the fire service.

This is a collaborative application submitted by the Meadow Restoration Collective, who are aiming to restore the hay meadows across their combined landholdings, totalling 86 ha. The Collective looked for support towards a seed separator to clean their brush harvested seed, which will enable the efficient and improved processing ability of their farms to harvest, collect, sort and redistribute a wide variety of wild hay meadow seed to support biodiversity and improve soil health.

This project centres around the creation of a 300m permissive path through the applicant's land at Epona, linking up two Public Rights of Way (two bridleways & one public footpath), creating a safer, more accessible and enjoyable route for the public. This included replacing existing stiles with accessible gateways, restoring a stone faced hedge bank, planting 60m of species rich hedgerow and  supporting the purchase of two small electric fencing packages which will provide better control of stock on the site.

The delivery of a one-day cattle behaviour course, led by cattle behaviour expert Miriam Parker, enabling participating common graziers to build skills to better understand behavioural drivers and mitigate cattle incidents.

The ambition of this project is to develop a universal product for the uplands which can capture, inform and shape commons management. This will be achieved and driven by a small steering group (landowners, graziers and the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project) with the input of specialists. A bespoke App will be designed, field tested and evaluated, specifically for Dartmoor’s soils and habitats. This will identify the attributes at multiple sample points and build a detailed picture of resource type, condition and management options. The project will provide a localised assessment tool to support land managers at a spatial level.

This project aims to create a digital integrated map of South Tawton Common, that will capture and store all of their current and future data and enable commoners to make more informed decisions regarding the management of the common going forward. The project will allow more confident decision making, collaborative working, and improve their mapping capabilities.

This project aims to restore Blackenstone woodland whilst also increasing tree cover by planting and guarding 80 native young trees. Three educational access visits were included so that the local public can enjoy and learn from the woodland, these will encourage nature connection and increase understanding and awareness of the different types of species found on site.

Upgrading and improving a boardwalk on the popular route leading from Newbridge carpark to Deeper Marsh. This is a route with very high footfall, the work will replace the existing boardwalk which is almost unfit for use. Even though not a public right of way (PRoW), it is heavily used by members of the public as a main year-round access route to Deeper Marsh. The route also makes up part of the Two Moors Way and the Dartmoor Way-High Moor Link, and therefore this project will uplift the condition of Dartmoor's most popular promoted route, which celebrates its 50^th year in 2026.

This application is focussed on the essential first-phase of a long-term plan, which will enable the establishment of the site as a formal growing and educational hosting space. The works included in this application cover initial nature enhancement works such as boundary enhancements, tree planting and volunteer days. These works will improve biodiversity and habitat across the site, which will be a first step for the applicant in setting Moss Farm up as a growing space.

This project looks to protect and improve grazing and hay cutting practices within Pennaton Fields, whilst maintaining the Public Right of Way and improving visitor understanding of the area's habitats. The project will improve public access along the route and deepen the public's understanding of the special qualities of the adjacent Protected sites of Lady’s Wood and Viaduct Meadow as SSSIs, through the installation of signage.

A project to help the development of Dartmoor alpaca fibre processing for Lakemoor Alpacas, by supporting the purchase of specialist equipment to card (clean and detangle) alpaca fleece for the production of alpaca wool products. The project also included developing the Dartmoor Alpaca brand and product range, and increasing opportunities to connect with diverse groups and visitors through engagement with the animals, their fibre and the landscape.

A project supporting the development of a new land-based contractor, committed to delivering an exceptionally high standard of work relating to the creation, restoration and management of Dartmoor’s traditional and unique boundary styles within Dartmoor National Park and the surrounding area. This includes purchasing specialist equipment for walling and hedging, which will facilitate the development of their business as a local contractor in providing land-based expertise in the management and preservation of many of Dartmoor iconic landscape features.

Food Drink Devon is working to support in the development of a ‘Dartmoor Food Strategy’ – a visionary and action-oriented framework that connects people, place, and planet through a distinctive food system rooted in Dartmoor’s natural and cultural heritage. This first phase of works centers around stakeholder engagement & workshopping, to develop an informed draft strategy. Works will include organising and facilitate a stakeholder workshop, conducting interviews and surveys with key actors, and draft an outline strategy including vision, themes, and initial actions.

Access to South Tawton Common has become very difficult due to a significant overgrowth of gorse, and as a result, specific pinch-point sections of path that have become particularly gorse dense need to be improved. To improve visibility for the public and livestock, gorse on existing popular pathways will be appropriately managed, widening tracks to 6-8 metres in width.

Babeny Farm has a very popular Public Right of Way running through it, which provides a key access route for the public from the busy Dartmeet car park in the East Dart valley to Bellever woods and the Forest of Dartmoor. The route is regularly used by walkers, cyclists and horse riders, and takes you through an open area that is surrounded by grazed paddocks. This project aims to create a designated livestock holding pen in this area, to be used to hold sheep for worming (for example), before they go up onto the moor. This will ensure the space is utilised more effectively and will keep the public separate from livestock being held there.

This project aims to improve the southern boundary of a very popular Public Right of Way, which is regularly used by the public. The southern boundary of the route will benefit from stone faced bank restoration, hedgerow planting and fencing to secure the area for livestock and to benefit nature. The stone faced bank boundary is currently crumbling in places, there is no longer a hedgerow along the top and livestock are able to climb over it. This project will reinforce and improve this boundary,  benefitting both the local farmer and the public.

To create two small separate fenced off enclosures on Brent Moor with the aim of excluding livestock to rest these areas from grazing, this will enable a total area of 14 ha to be monitored to see the impact that grazing protection has on biodiversity. The enclosures will both remain accessible for maintenance through the installation of a pedestrian gate.

An archaeological survey has not been delivered on this common since the 1980s/90s, whereby aerial photos of the site were transcribed. This existing data was very top-line and unreliable, and there was therefore a high demand for a more detailed and up to date survey, which accurately captures and maps archaeological features found across Buckfastleigh Moor. Having multi-period heritage assets accurately mapped will both confirm the site’s archaeological significance based on concrete evidence, and help to inform land management and nature recovery decision-making on this common.

This project supports the collective purchase of a quad towed bracken roller for use on Belstone Common to improve biodiversity, public access and wildfire control. Belstone Common has become very bracken dense, due to an increase in warmer winters. Belstone Commoners Association have therefore created a bespoke Land Management Plan, with help from  the Dartmoor Hill Farm Project and Natural England. A bracken roller will help to reduce bracken in specific areas, which will contribute to the aims of the Plan.

The project aims to protect a wet woodland boundary to allow for a more appropriate grazing management regime on site, along with the creation of a woodland management plan to improve the long-term management of this specific County Wildlife Site. The project also includes the installation of 35 wildlife boxes to support wildlife in the woodland.

This project looks to protect the adjoining woodland at Delamore Farm from excessive livestock browsing by cutting back overgrowth along the field boundaries and installing stock proof fencing. One of the main field boundaries is a traditional ha-ha, which will benefit from being appropriately fenced, separating livestock from the adjoining woodland.