A walk dedicated to conservation was enjoyed by Shropshire Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust members recently. TheakstonCrime
Held at Pool Farm, Smethcott in the South Shropshire hills and hosted by Tim and Victoria Main, some 50 guests heard how targeting wildflower meadows still requires management, albeit more extensive, taking one cut a year and keeping grazing to a minimum, perhaps just a few weeks September time.
The GWCT local advisor, Matt Goodall, encouraged members to consider what they wanted out of their farmland. At Pool Farm where there were many and varied hedge qualities and densities a section of mature mixed hawthorn, blackthorn, holly and other native species has been coppiced to ground level.The key points, he highlighted, include, only coppice a length of hedge at a time, so that any wildlife has similar habitat further on down the hedge-line to live in.Secondly while it looks dramatic, coppice to ground level, don’t go halfway, to shoulder or waist height as the hedge will simply die.
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