English Heritage trains new generation of scythers to maintain meadows and craft

Reported by The Guardian World · 2 hours ago · Steven Morris

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Initiative aims to keep alive age-old skill, and at Muchelney Abbey in Somerset improve habitat for rare shrill carder beeIt sounds like something out of a Thomas Hardy novel: a merry band of men and women roaming the West Country cutting meadows by hand in exchange for hunks of bread and…

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