#Scything is so damn satisfying! 😀

I really enjoyed the session today - seeing the patch so quickly getting done, with only three of us on scythes. No noisy machinery, no gas fumes, just chatting amongst ourselves, and providing a curious spectacle to some of the dogs being walked... 😄

Vale Nature Partnership First set up in 2021 through theLocal Nature Partnership Cymruproject, the Vale Nature Partnership forms part of an all-Wales network of LNPs to conserve, promote and enhance nature in their areas.Our mission in the Vale is to reconnect people from all across the county with nature. By developing a nature recovery network, we aim to engage the public, local community groups and organisations, as well as schools and businesses to take part in practical action for nature in their communities.

📣1 place has just become available for each of our Learn to Scythe courses this weekend (Saturday 30 or Sunday 31 August), at University Hospital Llandough, led by Handpowered

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#ValeNature #Scything #Training

Time to cut & rake long grass!
God's Acre vols have been cutting & raking long flowery grass in local churchyards & volunteer co-ordinator Alex has scythed outside our office the Sastak building
Thanks to our landlords for letting us manage the area as a meadow
#CFGA #godsacrevolunteers #scything

#Volunteers are so important in management of of wildlife sites in Oxfordshire. Here I'm helping others #scything & raking at a small spring fen site (Raleigh Park) cutting greater reedmace, hard rush & dense yellow iris. & spreading marsh lousewort seed. @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social

Couple of hours scything this morning. Congratulated myself in spotting a wasps nest, only to stand on another. Is it vinegar for wasp stings? ......asking for a friend!
#scything #waspstings #wildlife

The meadow flowers in the dentists' garden have now set seed and so I tried out my new scythe. It was fun, very interesting, and did a good job. I'm happy with the results for my first time... and am hoping to stop sweating in the next few days #scythe #scything #meadow #nomow #nomowmay

In Lye Valley our newest volunteers are here getting a chance to learn #scything with our Austrian scythes. A new skill for them and later they can help more as the reed gets tall & it is all hands to tools to reduce its dominance. @friendlyevalley.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social

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A fantastic #woodland Tuesday today in glorious sunshine. We’ve been busy gathering cord wood from winter felled trees before it gets overgrown with nettles and brambles then, after a quick lesson, I was set to #scything the shed “lawn”. A good skill to have and more good exercise in the green gym😎

I have to add an other epic scene
We can't forget Ross Poldark 🫠❤️‍🔥
#Scything #Poldark

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This years paths… #mowing #meadows #scything

In #Lyevalley #fen we find to our delight our first Early Marsh Orchid Dactylorhiza incarnata is in flower! A dark pink version with typical unspotted leaves. A big reward for all that #scything & raking. Wonder how many more to come. @friendlyevalley.bsky.social

It's #scything, raking & more scything & raking in #LyeValley #SSSI #fen at the moment. So important to get that spring rush & horsetail growth down before orchid spikes emerge. Even trained a new vol from Latvia! @friendlyevalley.bsky.social

After a #hedge planting and a few sessions of #scything, an army of #bulbs have been added to this new 'back to nature' project in Penpole Lane #Shirehampton
#community #communitygarden #wildlife #flowers #nature #plants #garden #gardening #bristol #uk

Precision scything.
Just cut the Hard Rush, and don't touch the Common Spotted Orchids, Marsh Helleborines, Fen Bedstraw, Marsh Thistles, Marsh Lousewort, or anything else in flower. So that's what he did...😎
#OxfordshireFens #OX3 #Scything

After only a few weeks' rest, the scything team have restarted our cutting regime for the year. Here, working at the northern end of our SSSI, we're removing mostly rush and sedge to give our rarer plants more light and air.
#OxfordshireFens #WildOxford #Scything #Conservation

Looks like you might benefit from attending the one day scything course at Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve? One week to go and a few places still available 30th June. http://bit.ly/learntoscythe #scythe #scything #learnsomethingnew #chilterns #chilternsAONB #grassland

There are still spaces available on our LEARN HOW TO SCYTHE course! It's on 30th June 2018 at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve. Book your place now: http://bit.ly/learntoscythe #chilterns #chilternsAONB #scything #learnsomethingnew #grasslands #conservation

Just two weeks to go until our 1 day "learn how to scythe" course. Release your inner Poldark and book a place today! For more information and to book: http://bit.ly/learntoscythe #scythe #scything #learnsomethingnew #poldark #chilterns #chilternsAONB #grassland #conservation

LEARN TO SCYTHE! Chilterns Conservation Board & @NaturalEngland have teamed up to offer a 1 day scything course at Aston Rowant Nature Reserve. Spaces are limited so book your place now: http://bit.ly/learntoscythe #chilterns #chilternsAONB #scything #learnsomethingnew #grasslands

One man went to mow...
Except this is part of our north fen, not a meadow, and rather than hay, we're giving the Blunt Flowered Rush (Juncus subnodulosus) its first cut of the year. If left to it's own devices, it tends to overshadow our scarcer plants.
#scything #SSSI