English Heritage trains new generation of scythers to maintain meadows and craft
What happened
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 meadow…
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