Over the course of three weeks community groups, conference attendees and visitors to the Natural History Museum were invited to weave, draw, write, colour and craft elements and species of the floodplain meadows, with an extra special opportunity to handle real specimens from the museum’s collection.

The Marvellous Meadow artwork comprising of three woven panels representing- earth (soil); meadow (plants) & water (river) was beautifully begun by members of the Farmability group at Long Mead meadow, Eynsham; continued by attendees at the Floodplain Meadows Partnership conference it was then completed by children and families visiting the museum at half term. Children as young as three, many who had never tried weaving before an even those who find sustained concentration on a task hard were soon absorbed in the ancient art of interlacing layers of colourful yarn and chatting about meadows.