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.