Initiative aims to keep alive age-old skill, and at Muchelney Abbey in Somerset improve habitat for rare shrill carder bee
It sounds like something out of a Thomas Hardy novel: a merry band of men and women roaming the West Country cutting meadows by hand in exchange for hunks of bread and cheese.
But the conservation charity English Heritage is recruiting a team of volunteer scythers to maintain 21st-century meadowland in the old-fashioned way.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/17/english-heritage-trains-new-generation-of-scythers-to-maintain-meadows-and-craft
Author : Steven Morris
Publish date : 2026-09-17 04:00:00
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