Grassland Monitoring at Frays Farm Meadows

KIW Trainee Deepak here. Working in Frays Farm Meadows, I've been assisting the Trust's senior ecologist, Tony Wileman, in carrying out grassland surveying, assessing the health and quality of our nature reserves. With the use of a 1m squared quadrat, we record the percentage of neutral grassland species we encounter and later relay this information to the Trust's Reserves manager, who works with our ecologist team to ensure our reserves are supporting wildlife to their best potential. On the farm, we also encounter cattle and horses who help maintain the meadow through conservational grazing; enhancing the diversity of the land.