Meadow creation and enhancement - funding and advice
Norfolk Wildlife Trust can provide advice, support and delivery to landowners to help you create new areas of meadow and to enhance existing areas. We can provide site visits and advice including:
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Appropriate methods of ground preparation needed
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The use of green hay and hand collected local wildflower seed
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Target species, soil type analysis
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Ongoing monitoring work
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Best practice management including cutting and grazing
We can provide advice to support you in fulfilling stewardship requirements, and provide a paid service to plan and deliver grassland creation and enhancement programmes from beginning to end.
Get in touch
If you have opportunities on your land for meadow creation or enhancement, we can help!
Contact: Ben Newton, NWT Wilder Landscapes Adviser: benn@norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk / 07471 487643
Meadows landscape (credit: Jon Hawkins – Surrey Hills Photography)
Meadow creation and enhancement advice
Meadows are living, breathing places; they are an historically and culturally important part of the landscape. A vital habitat for birds, mammals and invertebrates, these species-rich grasslands are particularly important for our precious pollinators due to the range of wildflowers that grow there.