{"id":3141,"date":"2014-08-01T15:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/?p=3141"},"modified":"2014-08-01T15:05:17","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T15:05:17","slug":"holland-park-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kensington-chelsea.com\/index.php\/holland-park-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"The Holland Park Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, Holland Park once again has some special guests! No,\u00a0not any special residents at the youth hostel or anything to do with the open air opera…but some English Longhorn cows, located in one of the\u00a0closed-off fields in Holland Park for a three week period of grazing.<\/p>\n

I’m sure that many of Holland Park’s visitors – be they dog walkers, joggers, parents and kids, tourists and others – have delighted in viewing the cows in the meadows located (approximately)\u00a0in the middle of the park. It’s surely an unusual sight for any London park, and\u00a0just one of the things that makes this West London park so quirky and delightful – not to mention, a\u00a0joy to visit.<\/p>\n

The four Longhorn cows – 5-year-old Jelly and her calf, Neeko, and 3-year-old Lulu and her calf, Noodle (Noodle!! How cute!) – came to Holland Park on 14th July. They’ve been brought in\u00a0to help re-establish some of the meadows into wildflower ones for the coming seasons.\u00a0If you pay a visit to where the cows are, you’ll notice that the fields have\u00a0a rather rough terrain with little greenery, taken over by brambles and nettles. The cows have been grazing\u00a0and gobbling up all before them from said\u00a0brambles and nettles, to thistles\u00a0and grass; this should help ‘disturb’ the wild flowers and bulbs that lie there that should then flower better in future.<\/p>\n

Here’s a few photos of the Holland Park cows from today (1st August), just before lunchtime. Well, by that I mean human lunchtime – the cows had clearly already had their fill, and were\u00a0lazing around on the grass, presumably digesting. To me it looked like the two babies were lying side by side, with the two mother cows lying a little distance away.<\/p>\n

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The adults take a rest<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cow enclosure – calves\u00a0in the centre of the picture<\/p><\/div>\n

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I’d say that’s a well-grazed meadow!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Mama cow<\/p><\/div>\n

The cows are only there until Monday 4th August, so do pay a visit over the weekend if you want to see them ‘in action’ in Holland Park!\u00a0You may well catch them up and about, grazing away merrily – they do often come close to the edge of their enclosure, so you can get a really good view of these beautiful creatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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