Staff from Butterfly World will be sowing the Watford Meadow in Garston Park for Butterfly World 2.0 between 10.30am and 12.30pm on Thursday, April 11.
The community group Green Gym are helping and we want to make the sowing a real community event and hope many people will join in. Just bring a really small trowel or small hand-held forks. Foam kneel cushions are very useful. Those who came to help in Hemel had a great time!
There used to be a meadow in every parish in England but since the 1930s 95% of meadows have gone and many of those remaining are under threat. We we hope to made a little difference. On Sunday, April 14, at the same time we will be sowing our St Albans Butterfly/Wildflower Meadow in the historic Abbey Meadow - again helpers are wanted. Next year we hope to plant meadows in Luton and Welwyn and Hatfield. Won’t it be wonderful if the now lost Miriam Rothschild Meadow at Butterfly World gives life to new meadows?
John Horsfield
Chair of Butterfly World 2.0
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