Conservation grazing
You can see our herd of Belted Galloway cattle happily munching across the Stroud landscape project area. We're also working closely with the graziers on Minchinhampton and Rodborough Commons and our tenants.
Conservation grazing isn't just happening on National Trust land. It's also taking place on important wildlife sites owned or managed by other organisations such as the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust, Butterfly Conservation and Natural England.
This traditional way of managing grasslands, without the use of harmful pesticides, creates a range of heights in the grass sward increasing the diversity of wildflowers and insects.
Sowing seeds
We're helping to restore areas of grassland by sowing wildflower and native grass seeds. We've collected some of this seed from fields that we care for at Woodchester Park as well as other wildflower meadows around Stroud. It won't be long before we see more cowslips, knapweeds, yellow rattle and orchids gracing the Cotswold landscape.