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Meadow creation and enhancement - funding and advice
Norfolk Wildlife Trust can provide advice, support and delivery to landowners to help you create new areas of meadow and to enhance existing areas. We can provide site visits, advice on creating and enhancing meadows for wildlife as well as advice to support you in fulfilling stewardship requirements. We also provide a paid service to plan and deliver grassland creation and enhancement programmes from beginning to end.
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Enhancing an existing meadow
To provide information on how meadows can be enhanced to become more species-rich and diverse places for wildlife. This can be achieved through a variety of methods including seeding and the use of green hay.
Grassland
Flower-rich grasslands, full of wildflowers such as orchids, snake's head fritillaries and bird's-foot trefoil support an abundance of insects, from bumblebees to butterflies.
Local Nature Recovery Strategy
By responding to the Local Nature Recovery Strategy (LNRS) Public Survey by the 14th of July you can have your say and help to shape the priorities for nature recovery in Norfolk.
Calaminarian grassland
This is a strange, sparse habitat of grassland growing on old mining tracks and slag heaps, on river gravels and naturally exposed metal-rich soils in the mountains. Only the toughest metal-loving…
Upland calcareous grassland
Limited in distribution, this sweetly-scented, short-cropped, springy grassland is famed for its abundance of rare and scarce species.
Lowland calcareous grassland
Typical of softly rolling pastoral landscapes, the short, aromatic turf of lowland calcareous grassland is flower-rich and humming with insects in the summer. Its long use by humans lends it an…
Upland acid grassland and rush pasture
These grasslands, occupying much of the UK's heavily-grazed upland landscape, are of greater cultural than wildlife interest, but remain a habitat to some scarce and declining species.
Lowland dry acid grassland
Sprinkled with diminutive, short-living flowers in spring and parched dry by July, this is a habitat of heathlands, coastal grasslands and ancient parkland.
Meadows
The great British meadow is an iconic part of our countryside and a vital wild space for animals, plants, and humans alike. Read our guide to meadows and find out how to assess and manage a meadow.