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nature's open-mic for bees, where doing nothing is the whole productive plan
means A field of grass and wildflowers, usually open and untended, often kept for hay or grazing.
from From Old English 'mǣd' (and its inflected form 'mǣdwe'), tied to the verb 'māwan,' to mow — so a meadow is fundamentally 'the place that gets mown.' It's a cousin of the shorter word 'mead' (the grassy field, not the honey drink) and shares deep Germanic roots with words for mowing across the family. The grass was always meant for cutting.
- human-made
- Most meadows exist only because we mow or graze them
- biodiversity
- One square meter can hold 40 plant species
- vanishing act
- Britain lost 97% of meadows since the 1930s
- underground
- Most of a meadow's life lives below soil
- carbon vault
- Stores carbon in roots, not flammable canopies
for instance
meadow brook railroad — historic narrow-gauge railway in new jersey that operated from 1905-1961 through wetland meadows