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- Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:10 am
- Forum: One Person's Weed, Another's Wild Plant...?
- Topic: Winter heliotrope
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3331
Winter heliotrope
There has been a lot of talk on the Moor Meadows email exchange about the Winter Winter heliotrope so I thought I would post some of the information here: This was the original posting: This plant (Winter Heliotrope) has been spreading all along the road verge of Orley Common, near to our property. ...
- Thu Apr 22, 2021 9:03 am
- Forum: Handy Apps
- Topic: Flower id app.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5647
Re: Flower id app.
An App called Seek ( i Naturalist) is very good - you point your phone’s camera at a plant and it can usually identify it really quickly.
- Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:29 pm
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: BSc and MSc in Regenerative Food & Farming
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2111
BSc and MSc in Regenerative Food & Farming
You might like to know that Schumacher College is soon going to be launching their ground-breaking (pun intended!) new BSc and MSc in Regenerative Food & Farming, so we should have a lot more folks starting new careers in regen. ag. over the next few years, and no doubt a number of them will sti...
- Tue Apr 20, 2021 8:42 am
- Forum: News and Events
- Topic: Bumblebees of Devon Atlas + Conservation Guide - by Patrick Saunders, edited by Cathy Horsley
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2867
Re: Bumblebees of Devon Atlas + Conservation Guide - by Patrick Saunders, edited by Cathy Horsley
Thanks Amy. You are correct its not in the resources on the Moor Meadows website but is now! David
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:17 pm
- Forum: Seeding
- Topic: Buy local seed wherever possible
- Replies: 19
- Views: 45210
Re: Buy local seed wherever possible
Emorsgate seeds https://wildseed.co.uk/ are good and have a mix for almost any situation. They should be able to supply most of your needs; the site also has lots of helpful information for those restoring wild meadows or creating them from scratch. Then later in the summer get some bales of fresh c...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:13 pm
- Forum: All about Verges, Churchyards and other Public Green Spaces
- Topic: Advice on verges
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3819
Advice on verges
There is a Plantlife Verges advice document which you may find useful: https://www.plantlife.org.uk/application/files/4614/8232/2916/Road_verge_guide_17_6.pdf BeWild community group in Buckfastleigh are going to utilise seed from existing species-rich verges in the parish (we are lucky to have one l...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:10 pm
- Forum: Seeding
- Topic: Buy local seed wherever possible
- Replies: 19
- Views: 45210
Buy local seed wherever possible
If you can source local seed, you not only know where it comes from (always good to know), but also it’ll be fresh and locally suited; provided the seed collected is going to a site with similar characteristics i.e. damp meadow seed to a damp site, with similar nutrient levels. The reasons given by ...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 2:58 pm
- Forum: Meadow Cutting
- Topic: Rewilding and meadow management
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3448
Rewilding and meadow management
Rewilding, as has been said, is complicated, and really only makes sense on a very large scale. Anything smaller needs to be carefully managed, especially without wild large herbivores and top predators: Knepp, for instance, has to manage grazing pressure very carefully, by culling and/or removal. (...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 2:54 pm
- Forum: Managing Meadows with Livestock
- Topic: Using ponies to get the grass down at the start of spring
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4635
Using ponies to get the grass down at the start of spring
This is how we use ponies to help manage our meadows. We have about 5 acres of meadows and have used 3 Dartmoor ponies a few years ago (we now use Shetland’s as the person we got the Dartmoor ponies from doesn’t have them anymore). We get them in at the beginning of January and have them taken off b...
- Sat Dec 26, 2020 2:45 pm
- Forum: Field Scale Meadow Restoration and Creation
- Topic: Increasing diversity in a meadow
- Replies: 6
- Views: 9178
Increasing diversity in a meadow
If you are thinking about reseeding or increasing the diversity of plants in your existing meadow you might be interested in using either green hay and/or dried hay bales from very diverse hay meadows. Both these methods are the most cost-effective way of seeding a large area. Green hay versus dried...