Pollinator Meadows 2020 restoration underway after Zoom training for all involved
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Plantlife again this summer as part of the Pollinator Meadows 2020 project to restore and create flower rich meadows with funding…
The wildflower seedling’s view – guidance notes for the first year of meadow restoration projects from Plantlife
While we’ve been restoring and creating meadows in Herefordshire we’ve learned so much and are now sharing experience of best practice, the challenges and pitfalls of each stage of the…
OPPORTUNITY to purchase share in flower rich traditional orchard in Breinton Common
An opportunity for anyone who’d like to be involved in a meadow / orchard restoration project in a spectacular location in the Wye Valley. Seeking partner funders to join a…
Have your say in the ELM policy discussion – closes 31 July 2020
This is a chance to feed your ideas and views on grassland, and other crops and habitats, to The Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme that is the new agricultural policy…
everything you need to know about yellow dandelion type flowers but were afraid to ask
We had a virtual plant ID day on 26th June led by Stuart Hedley with photographs of plants sent in by the Group, and Stuarts very helpful herbarium sheets of…
Bumblebee ID photos on Stephen Falk’s Flikr page a great boon to all meadow surveyors
Stephen Falk has the most wonderful Flikr page with excellent bumble bee photos to help when you have a bee on a flower or in a pot in the field….
Bumblebee survey and ID virtual workshops 2020 and upcoming bee clinic
Great to have so many people with us over the last two weeks for Bumblebee survey refresher and ID sessions led by Hayley Herridge, Conservation Officer, Buglife. We have also…
Multi species leys Part 1 – virtual field day webinar with Agricology
If you missed this webinar with speakers from Duchy College TOMS project, North Wyke ( Rothamsted) and others on all the joys, benefits and challenges of establishing herbal leys. There…