The Meadow Makers' Network Forum

"The current owners embarked on a plan to rewild their part of the Carey Valley a long time before the concept became popular. Keen naturalist and countryman they have not used any fertilizer or chemical treatment for 25 years and have until the last few years only lightly grazed the land with a few cattle during the summer months. The historic land drains in the pasture areas have long broken up and the meadows are slowly reverting to being an excellent natural filtration bed and in turn a natural reservoir slowing down the water flow and contributing to flood relief. The habitat created provides a home and larder to many thousands of creatures from insects to red deer. The flora ranges from mosses to grasses through to many wild flower species like the early purple, marsh and bee orchids to fragrant meadow sweet. The woodland provides yet more diversity with its oaks, sycamores, holly and hazel with willow and alder on field and river margins. The River Carey runs along and trough the property, a tributary of the River Tamer it is home to brown trout, sea trout, salmon and grayling as well as the occasional beaver and otter and plentiful wagtails, dippers and kingfishers."

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