Heworth Holme is a little slice of countryside right in the middle of York. It might look wild but without maintenance it would all turn into impassable scrubby woodland. St Nicks manage the land to provide a range of habitats and today we were helping to scythe part of the meadow to encourage wild flowers by removing cut grass and so lowering the nitrogen levels in the soil to give the flowers a chance.

As usual, Jonathan from St Nicks made it look easy and had already done a chunk before we arrived. However despite our collectively less advanced skills we still cleared a large area of grassland and no frogs were chopped in half in the process (that I noticed anyway). Good to be back to some semi-skilled, destructive manual labour: what GoodGym does best.