{"id":10451,"date":"2021-10-14T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=10451"},"modified":"2021-10-14T00:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T23:18:24","slug":"watercress-and-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wenvoe.org.uk\/?p=10451","title":{"rendered":"Watercress and Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watercress Beds at Goldsland Farm<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We are delighted to welcome the Cardiff Rivers Group who specialise in opening waterways and who will be helping to clear the watercress beds at Goldsland Farm. This is a historic site with newspaper reports from mid-Victorian times telling how women would walk from Cardiff, gather the watercress and then walk back to sell it in the city. It is a haven for wildlife and watercress still grows there although eating it would not be recommended. Initial work will be to start to clear the vegetation and cut back the willows. Regular visitors will start to see changes in the coming weeks. The photo is a painting by Zoffany of a Watercress Seller.<\/p>\n

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Barbastelle\u00a0 Bats<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We continue with the Barbastelle project aimed at recording this rare bat which has yet to be found in the Vale of Glamorgan. So far large amounts of data have been analysed and there are plenty of bats, Pipistrelles, Noctules and Myotis species but no Barbastelles – but it is still early days. Visitors will start to see changes to both the Upper Orchid Field and the Community Orchard as annual cuts and seed-gathering machinery work their way through the sites<\/p>\n

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Wenvoe Wildlife Group Watercress Beds at Goldsland Farm We are delighted to welcome the Cardiff Rivers Group who specialise in opening waterways and who will be helping to clear the watercress beds at Goldsland Farm. 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