Restore and Create a meadow
- Restoration Checklist : what to think about at the start of your project
- Meadow Restoration Plan – guidance notes for the first year of a restoration project If you want a plan tailored to your field please ask for an advisory visit
- Plantlife Meadows’ Hub with a wealth of information including the good meadows guide for transforming places to flower-rich meadows
- Stuart Hedley’s policy note on grassland creation for wildlife in Herefordshire
- Herefordshire Meadows Top Tips for meadow restoration and creation : next steps once you’ve chosen your site and seed source
- Plantlife’s Grassland Restoration time flow-chart takes you through the whole restoration process
- Natural England Technical Information Notes at the links below and from The National Archives
- TIN 038 Seed sources for grassland restoration and re-creation in Environmental Stewardship
- TIN 066 Arable reversion to species rich grassland – site selection
- TIN 067 Arable reversion to species rich grassland – establishing a sown sward
- TIN 068 Arable reversion to species rich grassland – early management of the new sward
- Meadow restoration and holistic grazing can also be achieved using more innovative methods as demonstrated by Rob Havard in this video ‘How to create a wildflower meadows in the five minutes’
- Keith Datchler uses a ‘Green Seed method’, which is a new take on transferring meadow seed locally from donor to recipient site. To discover more, follow this link to his video on Green Seed
- PFLA and Plantlife webinars on meadow restoration techniques and a showcase of british meadows and restoring and creating small areas of native grassland can be watched on Youtube
Creating bare ground before seeding
From Coronation Meadows projects 2016