Posts Tagged ‘meadows’
Meadow Improvement at Pudsham
The DPA are proud to offer a broad variety of volunteering opportunities, with workdays happening across our land holdings on both weekdays and weekends. Our most recent conservation workday at Pudsham Meadows was on Sunday the 8th of February and we had an excellent turnout. The weather was also much kinder than it has been…
Read MoreBracken Rake at Pudsham
Fourteen volunteers from the Dartmoor Preservation Association were joined by twenty volunteers from the Devon Wildlife Trust to rake up the bracken from the DPA’s four flower meadows at Pudsham. The bracken had been cut with strimmers two weeks before, as part of the regime of tending the fields, where earlier in the year several…
Read MorePudsham Bracken Cut
This week was our annual bracken cut on DPA owned land at Pudsham Meadows. Using both strimmers and hand operated scythes, DPA conservation volunteers cut back bracken growth in our four fields: Pudsham Meadow, Goat Field, Small Field and Sylvia’s Field. The entire site consists of these four fields plus several small shelterbelt areas filled…
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