Restore and Create a meadow +
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
- 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 060 The use of yellow rattle to facilitate grassland diversification
- TIN 061 Sward enhancement: selection of suitable sites
- TIN 062 Sward enhancement: choice of methods
- TIN 063 Sward enhancement: diversifying grassland by spreading species-rich green hay
- TIN 064 Sward enhancement: diversifying grassland by oversowing and slot seeding
- TIN 065 Sward enhancement: diversifying grassland using pot-grown wildflowers or seedling plugs
- TIN038 Seed sources for grassland restoration and re-creation in Environmental Stewardship
- TIN068 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 +
Creating bare ground before seeding -
From Coronation Meadows projects 2016