Maintaining a tradition happily re-established in recent years, the wildflower meadow at King’s College, Cambridge, is being harvested this week with the help of Shire horses. Their work began on Monday (5 August) and is due to be completed today (Thursday, 8 August). The Shire horses are named Cosmo and Bryn, and they are from Huntingdon-based Waldburg Shires stables. The heavy horses are helping to cut the meadow, before turning and carting the hay on a traditional wain, with the bales being used to propagate more wildflower meadows across the city of Cambridge. The hay will then be offered …