00:00In the last 50-60 years, meadows have declined 97% and more, I think, on seeing it's probably more
00:09like 99%.
00:11So it's become a very rare habitat.
00:14So I started Dollar Seeing in 2019 and it's every year added to in terms of people who have got
00:24in touch and asked for advice and then become part of the network.
00:27And also different organisations and local councils and schools and caravan parks and golf courses and the farming community as
00:40well.
00:41So I think I've got 80 different patches of land that would comprise Dollars Llin.
00:48What we were doing was pretty intensive and we wanted to change something we didn't know what.
00:54So we've restored them, or turned them into hay meadows, and we're getting paid on it.
00:58So we're getting paid on something that wouldn't have grown, it would have just burnt before.
01:02This is one of the best meadows that is part of the farm here at Cwrt.
01:09Over the last few years, there has been a programme in place called the Payment for Outcomes Scheme,
01:15which has worked with the farmer to move the coastal strip back a field, and the coastal fields have been
01:24restored to become meadows.
01:27We use the hay for the cattle.
01:29There's an anthomentic in what we grow in the hay meadows now, sorry.
01:33Traditionally, in Cymru, some meadows were called Cai Meddig, or Medicine Field, a meadow that is really rich in all
01:43these different species.
01:44Many of them have a lot of different medicinal properties, and it's not just the medication, but just generally livestock
01:52thrive on a mixed sword.
01:56And it's just something, it's a feel-good factor to be able to sell your own beef and a nice
02:04story behind it.
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