Most traditional farms had an orchard nearby and the orchard meadow provided grazing, often used for sick or expectant livestock. Surviving farm orchards are very important habitats for wildlife, ...

Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: This meadow-maker sucks the life from dominant grasses to allow others to thrive Four miles per hour is too slow – the plants are pushed down. Eight is too fast – tearing ...

“Gliográn” means “little rattler” – a clattery, tinkling thing – and it describes well the sound rippling across a field full of yellow rattle in late summer, around August, carried best on a dry day ...