On Friday 7th November, our Meadow Monitors enjoyed a wonderful opportunity to take part in a grassland fungi foray at Stockings Meadow, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve, led by the Fungi County Recorder, Jo Weightman. The event formed part of our extended training programme for the Meadow Monitors, designed to deepen understanding of additional indicators of grassland health, other than… Read more →
Anna Stankiewicz
Celebrating the Meadow Monitors 2025
If you follow us and our activities, you might remember our recruitment campaign for Meadow Monitors back in April– a call for volunteers to help us assess the progress of meadows restored through the 2021 Meadow Makers project. Thanks to Jules Agate, and the fantastic response from our community, that call quickly grew into the fully fledged and super efficient… Read more →
Transforming Floodplain to Diverse Grassland event at Sellack, 15th July
On Tuesday 15th July, a group of Wyescapes farmers and land managers gathered at Caradoc Farm to take part in our technical session on floodplain grassland restoration. We were supported by Floodplain Meadows Partnership Project Manager, Emma Rothero and Dreda Darling, who generously shared her experiences of the recent grassland restoration, and kindly delayed the haylage cut to accommodate our… Read more →
Meadows and Mosaic Habitats walk at Lower Hardwick Cottage, 13th July
On Sunday 13th July, for our Meadows and Mosaic Habitat event, we visited Diana and Keith Palmer to learn from their experiences of creating spaces for nature on their 7-acre site. We were all incredibly inspired by the foresight, dedication and hard work which has gone into creating their beautiful wildflower meadow and by how they have enhanced its value… Read more →
Grassland and Resilience farm walk at Boycefield Farm, 10th July
With the recent heatwave affecting grass growth, fodder supply has been a growing concern for many farmers. At our farm walk on Thursday 10th July at Boycefield Farm, we explored three grazing systems that can help build farm resilience: Some excellent conversations about building up farm soils took place, and the key takeaways were: As we walked and talked, the… Read more →