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Jane Howard’s Fables from the Farm Jane is thrilled to see that her wildflower meadow is a blooming success at last Summer has at last arrived. Everyone who is going to give birth has done so, the sheep and cattle are all happily grazing outside and the grass is not yet high enough to make hay. So it’s a time of relative peace and calm and our focus has turned to our six- rather than four-legged friends. I have written before about the flower meadow we painstakingly planted two years ago. Quite a performance, for first we had to kill off five acres of grass – no mean feat, three times we sprayed it and twice it bounced straight back – and then we had to rip up the dead thatch to reveal bare soil. Then we sowed a typical Weald assortment – including the now quite rare Ragged Robin, Yellow Rattle and Corn Cockle – and while we were thrilled when the bare brown earth turned green, the first year was mainly common annuals such as poppies, daisies and cornflowers. This year however, I am happy to report, the meadow looks much more like the meadow I imagined, a kaleidoscope of delicate flowers against a backdrop of green leaf and red sorrel. Lovely. Even better news, while last year there was a definite lack of insect life, this year it is positively humming with a huge variety of bees, beetles and butterflies. This is great to see, as here at Coopers Farm our thoughts are turning more “There are more than 2,500 different moths native to the UK” and more to encouraging pollinators. And while we have five beehives in another part of the farm, honey bees account for a surprisingly small fraction of pollination. Wild bees, and a huge variety of bumbles, hoverflies, moths and butterflies do most of the work! To encourage butterflies we have been busy cutting glades into a woodland along a fence line where it meets the field. Every few hundred metres, ideally near a pussy willow if we can find one, we have chopped down some trees and saplings to make small clearings that are south facing and open to the sky but entered on an eastfacing edge. It’s called a scalloped margin. Once the sun gets in it will only take one season for dormant seeds on the woodland floor to burst into life providing a varied habitat. But our property developments don’t stop there and we are also making bee ‘hotels’ – oak logs drilled with 5mm and 6mm holes for solitary bees to crawl in, lay eggs and hibernate. Needless to say, to achieve these new habitats and to make sure our endeavours are as des res as they can possibly be we have had a lot of help from Laurie, our local expert from the charity Buglife. And very excitingly she turned up one evening last week to carry out our first nocturnal moth audit. This is quite a palaver but, full of anticipation of what we might find, we filled our Thermos (and hip) flasks and set off about nine o’clock into the woods. The moth trap is rather like a sawn-off dustbin, placed on a white sheet, filled with egg boxes and topped with a clear dome holding a bright light bulb to draw in the moths. And hey presto, along they came. There are more than 2,500 different moths native to the UK, so you can appreciate the English names get quite weird and wacky at times. The Common Wave (as opposed to a royal one?), the Puss moth, Triple Lines, Carpets, there’s even a Tunbridge Wells Gem out there, but not that night in our Sussex fields. Some of them have adorable fluffy faces like kittens, others look like dead tough hockey goalies. Some are plain like the Straw Dots, while others were marvellously patterned like the Marbled Carpet. A whole new journey of discovery! On the night, we trapped (and released) more than 30 different moths. Only 2,470 to go! Follow Jane Howard – and the farm – on Instagram @coopersfarm Credit: FreeImages.com/Eva Schuster, Vincent Kilpatrick wealdentimes.co.uk 162
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