Seven volunteers turned up at Speke hall and spent the day in a field near the car park "hay raking". The NT want to convert the field into a flower meadow containing "hayfield" flowers - in order to do this they need to reduce the soil fertility - so that the flowers have some chance of competing against the grass.
The normal way of doing this is to cut and remove the grass as if making hay. As it was not practical to remove the cut grass from site it was decided to burn it in small fires - so that most of the field will have lower nutrients but with small patches of richer soil where the fires were.
It rained during the morning which slowed the fires down dramatically - and we raked far more than we were able to burn. They day dried out again (so did we!) and the sun came out later.
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