Brimpts Meadow
Brimpts Meadow
Moor Meadows was co-founded in 2015 by Donna Cox of Buckfastleigh along with a small group of local people living on Dartmoor. After five years of sharing advice, equipment and wildflower seeds and with support provided through expert talks and practical workshops, the number of meadow-makers involved in the Moor Meadows group has grown to more than 800. In total 1,088 acres of wildflower-rich meadows have been restored or created by the group’s members in and around Dartmoor.
Traditional wildflower meadows have disappeared from most of the English countryside. Nationwide, a staggering 97% of flower-rich grasslands have been lost since the 1930s. With the loss of diverse flowering plants came an associated decline in bees, butterflies and other insects that depended on those plants as food and nectar sources. And impacted by that disappearance of insects, many birds, bats and small mammals were also lost from the countryside.
More Meadows has created a new online forum as a resource for budding meadow-makers with advice on managing a meadow as well as opportunities to join or start up local groups of meadow makers. For details see forum.moremeadows.org.uk