In the current edition of “British Wildlife” magazine, there is an interesting article about the restoration of floodplain meadows using green hay.  This habitat is now very rare, there are <1200ha left in the UK.  The article describes how a meadow in Wiltshire was restored using green hay, and converted from pasture to meadow management over several years.

A summary of a paper written about the project can be found on the “Conservation Evidence” website:

https://www.conservationevidence.com/individual-study/6954

and you can also download the whole paper (Hosie C., Rothero E.C. & Wallace H. (2019) Restoration of a floodplain meadow in Wiltshire, UK through application of green hay and conversion from pasture to meadow management. Conservation Evidence, 16, 12-16)  from that same Conservation Evidence website page.

Thank you to Andrew for spotting this article.

Rachel