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Ecological Land Maintenance CIC Award-winning grounds/garden maintenance CIC, committed to restoring biodiversity in South & West Yorkshire, N Derbyshire and the Peak District. Specialising in habitat creation and management including ponds, meadows, woodlands, hedges, gardens, and more

We are an award-winning ethical grounds maintenance and wildlife gardening company in Sheffield, working to transform wild spaces for nature.

We undertake a range of projects to boost biodiversity, including the creation and regular maintenance of habitats, including gardens, woodlands, hedges, meadows, and more, using organic and often traditional techniques. We are based in North Sheffield cover South Yorkshire, Kirklees, North Derbyshire and the Peak District.

✅ Stage one of this garden transformation complete, just the planting and seeding left to do!🐝 This is a real demonstrat...
09/10/2026

✅ Stage one of this garden transformation complete, just the planting and seeding left to do!

🐝 This is a real demonstration of how many different habitats you can provide in one small space.

4️⃣Four different wildflower mixes
4️⃣ Four species of fruiting shrubs
1️⃣6️⃣ Common heather plants alongside the path
2️⃣3️⃣ Old paving slabs given new life, avoiding landfill

🪻 We may even convert the client's old wheelbarrow into a standing bog garden for yet another mix of species.

🦔 And there's hedgehog highways in both sides so that our prickly friends can roam free!

We have had a £6.80 cashback donation from B&Q, supporting our cause of in the region. 🦔🐝 The great news is, you can s...
03/10/2026

We have had a £6.80 cashback donation from B&Q, supporting our cause of in the region. 🦔🐝 The great news is, you can support us too, at no cost to yourself!

Simply visit the link in the comments and download the browser extension or app. 🔗 Then, when you support Ecological Land Maintenance C.I.C., a little pop-up will appear when you're shopping with a participating retailer. 🤩

£6.80 may not sound much but, to a cause like ours, it's everything! As a Community Interest Company (C.I.C.), we're halfway between a charity and an ethical business. All of our profits are reinvested into our mission, not fat dividends for faceless shareholders. 💪

We have huge plans for our growing company but your help would be huge. So, before you forget, tap the link below and sign up! 🙏

Andy was down at Heeley City Farm on Sunday, giving his time to help rebuild their wildlife pond after it was damaged by...
23/09/2026

Andy was down at Heeley City Farm on Sunday, giving his time to help rebuild their wildlife pond after it was damaged by vandalism at the start of the summer. It's so great to see the Sheffield community pulling together to help such an amazing project. 😍

Phew! 😮‍💨 Scythe mowing is all fun and games until you have a 1-acre meadow to cut, especially in mid September! But it ...
18/09/2026

Phew! 😮‍💨 Scythe mowing is all fun and games until you have a 1-acre meadow to cut, especially in mid September! But it is certainly exciting that this could be species-rich grassland in just a few years.

There are encouraging signs in just our first year of managing this habitat - 29 species of flora noted so far, with many more expected in coming years. 🪻 Being sited so close to the Abney Clough SSSI grassland means there is clearly a healthy seedbank nearby.

We originally planned to strim the meadow this year, to cut lower and damage the "improved" (nutrient-rich) indicators of nettles and thistles but, since advising our client to rake off the cuttings from their ride-on mower last summer, it's in a healthier position already. 🙌

By cutting the vegetation and removing the cuttings, followed by winter grazing, it reduces those nutrients and increases light levels for more delicate and desirable wildflowers. 🐎🐄 But, leaving it so late has allowed secondary growth of the grasses, which takes a lot more effort! 😴

If you have a wildflower patch or mini meadow in your garden, cut that too, once the flowers have set seed. Unless it is full of seed heads for winter food for wildlife, in which case it's best left until February. 🐦🐦‍⬛

You can now raise FREE donations for Ecological Land Maintenance C.I.C. every single time you shop online, just using !...
14/09/2026

You can now raise FREE donations for Ecological Land Maintenance C.I.C. every single time you shop online, just using !

Over 8,000 retailers will donate to us at no cost to yourself, including all the big names like John Lewis & Partners, BT, Expedia, Argos, ASOS, Just Eat, Uswitch and many more!

Please support us by following the link in our bio - it's really easy and could make a huge difference to our mission of restoring biodiversity to our beautiful region!

Just follow the link in the comments section below and start making more big businesses support our cause! ⬇️

🧑‍🌾We wanted to share a few foraging tips at this time of year, when the land has an abundance of fruits, berries, herbs...
08/09/2026

🧑‍🌾We wanted to share a few foraging tips at this time of year, when the land has an abundance of fruits, berries, herbs, and the occasional fungus.

🫐 There are so many benefits - mental, physical, and financial - it's a fun way to get out in the wild and grab yourself some delicious fresh food! This is the haul that our director, Andy, and wife, Tanya, collected from a stroll around a clients' on Sunday.

🍏 There are always fruits for beginners like the apples and rosehips (just don't get the windfalls from the floor.) And so many books or online resources to help. They didn't know how to check whether the giant puffballs are safe to eat, but could check before picking them.

🍄‍🟫 Turns out, if the inside is white, peel them and use them like you would any mushroom. They made veggie mince for lasagne with the big one (seasoned with the foraged oregano sprigs), and battered buffalo wings with the little one! 😍

🍶 Not only that, they made an elderberry and ginger elixir with the elderberries, and plan to make hedgerow gin with the sloes and blackberries. So much tasty food for free, from a nice walk to help the mental health as the days get shorter! 🌦️

🌿 So grab your phone and a foraging guide, get out of Sainsbury's, and wade into some hedges (with the landowner's permission!) But remember to only take what you need and leave some for the birds (and dragonflies!!) 🐦🐦‍⬛

While it's not usually 'company policy' to fell a mature holly tree as it's coming into berry, the difference is clear.☀...
05/09/2026

While it's not usually 'company policy' to fell a mature holly tree as it's coming into berry, the difference is clear.

☀️ Extra light for the garden flowerbeds
😌 Breathing space for our client and their neighbours
🌿 Tree killed organically with salt in the stump
♻️ All disposed of at the green waste recycling centre

It may not be our USP, getting rid of valuable habitat with no moderating replacement, we take a holistic view. If this helps people to connect with nature in their gardens and beyond, one tree is surely a worthy sacrifice!

It's always wonderful to see the habitats we've curated being used by wildlife! This is a pond we created just a few mon...
30/08/2026

It's always wonderful to see the habitats we've curated being used by wildlife! This is a pond we created just a few months ago, which has already been found by the local frog population 😍🐸

Our regular clients often see their hedges and woodlands full of beautiful birds and small mammals, or their gardens and meadows full of blooming native wildflowers 🐦‍⬛🪻

Surprisingly for many, this is our busiest time of year. Due to wildflower and wildlife reproductive patterns, September-November are often the best time to perform larger-scale disturbing work such as pond/garden clearances or tree pruning. 🏞️🌳

So, if you're keen to use our services, get in touch today so that we can start the discussion on how to best manage your wild spaces. Or check out our website (https://www.landmaintenance.site) to see examples of our other work, and testimonials from happy customers. 🤝

It's hard to believe these three photos are from the same spot, less than a year apart! 😍 This is a 100m section of hedg...
20/08/2026

It's hard to believe these three photos are from the same spot, less than a year apart! 😍 This is a 100m section of hedge that Andy laid last winter and is now thriving, providing shelter for a range of small mammals and birds! 🦔🐦‍⬛

Although it's not technically the end of bird-nesting season for another 12 days, we checked carefully to ensure we weren't disturbing any late nesters. And, from an overgrown, light-blocking, gappy line of trees last year, it's now a dense hedgerow full of berries! 🫐🍒

Cutting it early also gives a chance to some of the slower-growing shrubs like the blackthorns, hawthorns, and rowans to take advantage of this wetter weather to compete with the dog roses and hazels that had shot up! 🌧️🌱

And it lets us check for invasive or other fast-growing native species that can choke out a hedge like brambles, bindweed and elder. (Ngl, it was also just a chance to put our new Stihl hedgetrimmers through their paces and test the battery life! 🔋🪫)

We are delighted to announce our little company is growing! Firstly, we'd love to introduce M Thimm Art to our little te...
12/08/2026

We are delighted to announce our little company is growing! Firstly, we'd love to introduce M Thimm Art to our little team of two! 🤩👋

Meg has several years' experience with Sheffield & Rotherham Wildlife Trust and Heeley City Farm, and is completing an MSc. in Environmental Management, focussing on the collaborative management of upland farms. 👏🚜

Secondly, we're so excited to have officially started trading as a Community Interest Company, guaranteeing that any profits will be re-invested into nature recovery in our region. 🐝🦋🦡

This is something Andy has been working on for the past year, alongside Sheffield Social Enterprises Network, to give our clients peace of mind that we truly believe in our ethical mission and won't ever sway from these founding principles of creating beautiful, diverse habitats one wild space at a time. 💪🏞️

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