Young Meadow-Makers

From the foundation year at Eynsham Primary School to MSc students at Oxford Brookes University, our young people are coming together in their groups to propagate and plant out wildflowers in Eynsham’s new meadows for the Nature Recovery Network and Long Mead's Thames Valley Wildflower Meadow Restoration Project.

 

The Beavers reprised their efforts in St Leonards Churchyard in May and come and see

the foxgloves that they planted in the autumn which are now in flower.

Photo Catriona Bass.

 

 

The Scouts danced in a downpour on Long Mead as they potted

on rare devils-bit scabious and planted out red and white campion.

Photo Catriona Bass

 

 

Eynsham Primary Schools' youngest students sowed wildflowers

for their new well-being garden, helped by local experts: ecologist Anna Rowlands

and garden designer Nina Turner, with Long Mead's meadow-maker, Catriona Bass.

Photo Catriona Bass

 

 

Even Oxford Brookes MSc ecology students, who had a field trip to Long Mead

in May, have caught the Eynsham wildflower passion and returned to pot on

some of the seeds sown by younger students.

Photo Catriona Bass