Michael and Jane are fabulous presenters - BBC Countryfile eat your heart out! Wonderful editing and production - we're looking forward to the next installment.
Lovely video delightful people. Thankyou very much. I only have a tiny lawn but keep a corner of it uncut & put little mini fences around patches of wildflowers. My favourites this year were the Hawk Bits, lovely glowing little flowers, otherwise known as The Devils Paintbrush, apparently.
Lovely to see a proper meadow isn't it, and smell it. So much more diversity too, and that brings in other species including some animals and birds we used to see but don't see so often these days. BTW saw a Weasel in our garden 2 weeks ago. I know they are about but rare to see them, and so small. It scooted past (unaware of me watching) and returned about 3 minutes later with a dead mouse which it carried up the garden. So keeping a nest of young (kittens?) on the go. More weasels are always welcome.
Great video Richard, nice fitting music too. Wouldn't it be great to make wild flower meadow areas mandatory to some degree in every town and village 👌
Really interesting to see - I now know what a mechanical scythe is! There’s a field behind our allotment owned by the council that’s only cut twice a year and the noise of the crickets is amazing when you walk through!
Lovely to see the continuing story of this Meadow and these lovely folks. Brings back so many memories of my childhood. But my only concern is that they are in that Meadow in their shorts, and Ticks could be there, and as someone who is currently suffering from Lymes Disease I would be very careful if I was them.
Richard Vobes , it only needs a wild deer or fox or a dog to run through the Meadow and then you could have ticks present ! I grew up on a farm and enjoyed playing in the long grass meadows and have never every been bitten by a tick, now 66 years of age and enjoy lots of walking and get bitten by one of these nasty things is unbelievable! But it seems Southern England is on the increase with the tick population unfortunately, so just be careful out there, because the disease is not nice!
This was special. So glad you managed to return to make a follow up video and special thanks to Michael and Jane. Do they give the harvested material to someone else? Do they keep any for themselves to dry?
Great to see the huge variety of arthropod life on that meadow... Did you catch the fleeting mention of wild bees, rather than honeybees? sad to think that in the UK, honeybees seem to get far better pickings in towns than in many rural areas...until the oilseed rape is out, because although it seems such an alien crop, honeybees love it...but it too seems to be falling into decline of late...traditionalists will perhaps rejoice, (and understandably so), but urban beekeepers living on the edges of towns may mourn its passing...certainly back when my wife and I were beekeeping, the rape season was a huge bonus! Cheers as always Dave
Really exciting stuff! Dreadful to think that 98% of our natural meadows have been destroyed by industrial farming and that so many species of birds and insects are either now extinct, or at risk of extinction. At the same time we throw away massive amounts of food and spray the crops we eat with dozens of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and artificial fertilisers, which has resulted in one in two of us expecting to suffer from cancer at some point in our lives. As far as I’m concerned it is an appalling mess and change is urgently needed. Sadly these issues have been raised and discussed for many years but the pharmaceutical and chemical industry lobby the government daily and continue to make vast profits at our, and natures, expense.
Michael and Jane are fabulous presenters - BBC Countryfile eat your heart out!
Wonderful editing and production - we're looking forward to the next installment.
Many thanks!
Lovely video delightful people. Thankyou very much. I only have a tiny lawn but keep a corner of it uncut & put little mini fences around patches of wildflowers. My favourites this year were the Hawk Bits, lovely glowing little flowers, otherwise known as The Devils Paintbrush, apparently.
Thank you Richard. That was brilliant. The lady and gentleman are natural presenters and clearly have so much to share.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful! I could watch this all day ...
Two more parts to go :)
@@RichardVobes hope one part is to watch how they gather the different wildflower seeds?!🤗
Thank you Richard for going back. An absolute joy to watch, look forward to part two.
Lovely to see a proper meadow isn't it, and smell it. So much more diversity too, and that brings in other species including some animals and birds we used to see but don't see so often these days. BTW saw a Weasel in our garden 2 weeks ago. I know they are about but rare to see them, and so small. It scooted past (unaware of me watching) and returned about 3 minutes later with a dead mouse which it carried up the garden. So keeping a nest of young (kittens?) on the go. More weasels are always welcome.
Fantastic, looking forward to part 2
I keep returning to these older videos, they are so much better than the ones you put out now!
That scythe thingy looked none too harmless as well as the pitchfork. Delightful film and delightful couple.
That is just fascinating! I'm so glad that you went back to see it during harvest.
Great video Richard, nice fitting music too. Wouldn't it be great to make wild flower meadow areas mandatory to some degree in every town and village 👌
Absolutely
That was beautiful! 😊
I remember that video. Glad you went back. Eaglegards...
I was amazed at the diversity of insects in his collecting bag. Thank you for sharing this.
Most Lovely to see ..
Beautiful.
WOW this was wonderful Richard and so great to see the proof of what they believe in. I cant wait to see part 2 and part 3? Thank you for going back.
How fantastic; such a lovely couple the Josephs are! Very well filmed Richard- as ever 😃💜
Many thanks, Julia.
Goodness me, this is first class production.
This series is a little hidden gem.
Really interesting to see - I now know what a mechanical scythe is!
There’s a field behind our allotment owned by the council that’s only cut twice a year and the noise of the crickets is amazing when you walk through!
Very interesting. Who would guess that field would be so full of life. Thank your for sharing. I look forward to part two.
Soopretty I used to collect dry grasses and stir them I in a copper jug
I love this ❤
Nice video.
Many many thanks
Such a lovely video with many different flowers and insects.
Wonderful to see this. Very interesting and they are both clearly enthusiastic. I am looking forward to past 2.
Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you!
Lovely to see the continuing story of this Meadow and these lovely folks. Brings back so many memories of my childhood. But my only concern is that they are in that Meadow in their shorts, and Ticks could be there, and as someone who is currently suffering from Lymes Disease I would be very careful if I was them.
I don't think they have any animals in the field to acts as hosts.
Richard Vobes , it only needs a wild deer or fox or a dog to run through the Meadow and then you could have ticks present ! I grew up on a farm and enjoyed playing in the long grass meadows and have never every been bitten by a tick, now 66 years of age and enjoy lots of walking and get bitten by one of these nasty things is unbelievable! But it seems Southern England is on the increase with the tick population unfortunately, so just be careful out there, because the disease is not nice!
This was special. So glad you managed to return to make a follow up video and special thanks to Michael and Jane. Do they give the harvested material to someone else? Do they keep any for themselves to dry?
All will be revealed in part two and three
Great video raising the profile of 98% loss of our wild flower meadows. The Joseph's also run courses for the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
So interesting to watch, part 2 next!
Great to see the huge variety of arthropod life on that meadow...
Did you catch the fleeting mention of wild bees, rather than honeybees? sad to think that in the UK, honeybees seem to get far better pickings in towns than in many rural areas...until the oilseed rape is out, because although it seems such an alien crop, honeybees love it...but it too seems to be falling into decline of late...traditionalists will perhaps rejoice, (and understandably so), but urban beekeepers living on the edges of towns may mourn its passing...certainly back when my wife and I were beekeeping, the rape season was a huge bonus!
Cheers as always
Dave
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Really exciting stuff! Dreadful to think that 98% of our natural meadows have been destroyed by industrial farming and that so many species of birds and insects are either now extinct, or at risk of extinction. At the same time we throw away massive amounts of food and spray the crops we eat with dozens of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and artificial fertilisers, which has resulted in one in two of us expecting to suffer from cancer at some point in our lives. As far as I’m concerned it is an appalling mess and change is urgently needed. Sadly these issues have been raised and discussed for many years but the pharmaceutical and chemical industry lobby the government daily and continue to make vast profits at our, and natures, expense.