Downs restoration: strewing, scythes and sickles

Sophie Nash is Project Officer for the Westonbirt Project. She organises the logistics of the project, working with architects and project managers for various elements to deliver the works.

We have recently done a trial run of how we will carry out our downs restoration, turning the existing car park into Grade I Registered downland. For this we will be using a green hay strewing method which uses our local seed bank source and then it is spread in areas where we want to regenerate our existing flora.

We will be monitoring this area for growth and will be carrying out the same process next summer on the existing car park.

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