Tehidy Meadow helping to seed nature across Cornwall, again!

On 10^th August Cormac’s Melissa Ralph and Stuart Croft teamed up with Cornwall Wildlife Trust (CWT) and National Trust (NT) staff, to help harvest Cornish wildflower and grass seed.

They collected clean seed from Cornwall Council's (CC) beautiful species rich grassland at Tehidy Country Park, which includes yellow rattle, bird’s foot trefoil, red clover, common knapweed and fine grasses.

Penwith Landscape Partnership’s seed harvester bushes up seed and chaff into a hopper, to then be manually sieved through screens of large and smaller mesh, to remove most of the chaff.

The cleaned seed will help restore species richness at the following locations:

• CWT will deliver grassland improvement in the Drift catchment (15ha)
• NT will use their share in the ‘Cornwall Coastal Meadow Project’ 2023-2025 (250ha in total)
• Cormac will enrich several CC greenspaces and road verges to improve diversity to local grasslands – watch this space!

This comes after the successful use of seed from the meadow in many Cornwall Council gree spaces across Cornwall in recent years, which have proved the approach is viable.

Jan Dinsdale of CWT said ‘Thank you to organisations and collogues for your time at Tehidy last week. It was such a positive and productive day, working in partnership to harvest the seed and making useful connections between our various organisations at the same time.’