From assessing your site, to making decisions on restoration and ongoing management and monitoring, this course will take you through the stages involved in restoring and managing a meadow. You will be provided with useful tools and resources that will support you to take action.

• Setting the scene – the state of the UK’s meadows
• Meadow site assessments (theory and practical)
• Principles of meadow restoration and management
• Restoration techniques e.g. natural regeneration, green hay/brush harvesting, commercial seed, plug planting
• Management techniques e.g. cutting, hay-meadow and pasture management, grazing, machinery
• Indicator species and habitat features

Through this training you will develop the confidence, skills and knowledge to:

• Undertake a basic meadow site assessment
• Identify and implement appropriate meadow restoration techniques
• Implement monitoring including identification of key meadow plant species
• Plan and implement longer-term management

People and organisations who manage meadow, or potential meadow, sites.

• 2 days online
• 2 days on-site with classroom sessions and field visits
• Hybrid 1 day online, 1 day field visit