Posts Tagged ‘dartmoorponies’
Guest Blog: The Ponies of Pudsham
This ancient Dartmoor meadow is like a melody rising and falling through the year. But it not only modulates its own change, ponies and people change it too. Pulling up suckers of blackthorn and willow in October, doing the work bear and elk once did we kept the meadows open. Now it is the turn…
Read MoreConservation Grazing at Pudsham
As part of our ongoing Land Management plan for Pudsham Meadows, we have welcomed a small herd of 5 Dartmoor Ponies to graze during the autumn. This native breed is adapted to the Dartmoor weather and hardy enough to live out year round, making the sheltered meadows and plentiful grass at Pudsham a winter treat…
Read MorePreparing for Ponies at Pudsham
During autumn, we host Dartmoor ponies on our DPA owned meadows at Pudsham. These native ponies assist our conservation efforts, as part of our Land Management Plan, through trampling and grazing activity. They help with bracken control by trampling and weakening younger fronds, which maintains open bracken stands, the favoured breeding ground of rare fritillary…
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