I went to Toll’s Meadow today again for the conservation work, together with a few others from the UEA conservation club. This time, we needed to use a rake to pull out the grass on the soil surface, and then use a pitch fork to remove it to and pile it up at the side of the field.

Toll’s Meadow is a water meadow - an area of grassland beside a river. A meadow is a habitat of terrain where grasses predominate. Typically a meadow contains not only grasses but a significant variety of plants. We need to prevent the soil of Toll’s Meadow from having too much nutrients otherwise it will turn into a woodland. The purpose of removing the grass from the soil surface is to reduce the nutrients in the soil.   

I went to the Toll’s Meadow again for conservation work.

This time, we needed to transport to the far end of the field the weeds that were dug out and piled up at one side of the path last time (which was already one month ago). Due to the lack of manpower and funding, we and the volunteers could only move these weeds away now. The weeds would be just left there forever.

I went to Toll’s Meadow for the conservation work organized by the UEA conservation club. Toll’s Meadow is situated in Wymondham, ten minutes’ train from Norwich.

Toll’s Meadow is a Local Nature Reserve, some five acres owned by Wymondham Town Council. Local Nature Reserves are places with wildlife or geological features that are of special interest locally. They offer people special opportunities to study or learn about nature or simply to enjoy it.

A meadow is an open community of grasses and wildflowers with very few trees. This rich habitat supports a wide variety of animal life. Like Buxton Heath, to maintain the initial habitat of Toll’s Meadow, some volunteers go to Toll’s Meadow to cut off the trees to prevent it from turning to woodland.

That day, we were assigned to dig out the weeds from the surface of certain paths. This was to let the field to have better air supply and better chance of seeding. The tool we used was the pitch fork. It was not hard work because no one needed us to work hard. 

 The weeds we dug out were then piled up.

After working for one hour, we had the tea time - hot tea and tea biscuits prepared by one of the volunteers of Toll’s Meadow. It seems that tea time is part of English life.