Why are meadows important?
Meadows are an important part of the UK’s natural and cultural heritage – rich in landscape character, farming, folklore and history; they are as much a part of our heritage as the works of Shakespeare.
Today, only 2% of the meadows that existed in the 1930s remain, we’ve lost around 7.5 million acres of wildflower meadow. Modern farming now favours silage fields as an alternative, which often have as few as two or three plant species, often without a single flowering plant.