The cows are back for summer grazing. We’ve got 7 young ones this year, again from Higher Punchardon Farm, just up the road. They arrived on Wednesday and they’ll eat the grass on Lower Newland Moor (the turbine field) and Popehouse Moor, our Site of Special Scientific Interest. Their job is light ‘conservation grazing’ that will ensure the grass doesn’t overwhelm the diversity of flowers we have. And we hope their movement between the two parts of our farm will help spread the flower seeds around too. Our grass isn’t the lush stuff that dairy cows like, but these cross bred Devon Reds thrive on it. They are bullocks but only young. They’re easily scared off, but it you sit still in the grass they may come to sniff you out!
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