Flowered meadows

Cattle only grazes in the hayfields from autumn. Vegetation is left to grow during the good season and then the meadow is mowed once or twice depending on the weather to build up hay reserves for the livestock in the winter. These meadows are home to a wide range of plants and particularly flowers which give colour to the High-Jura agricultural landscape. There is a national environmental “competition” called “the flowered meadows” which encourages farmers to promote this diversity, particularly by adjusting the dates on which they mow their fields.