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Anna Stankiewicz
National Meadows Day 2026
This year’s celebrations of the National Meadows Day took place on Saturday July 4th at Hill House Farm, courtesy of James, Victoria and Fraser Hawkins. The day coincided with our 10th Anniversary which added to the joyful atmosphere. It was a fully booked event and we were honoured to be joined by Dr Ellie Chowns, MP for North Herefordshire, a… Read more →
Herefordshire Meadows AGM 2026
On Wednesday 7th January, we held our Annual General Meeting. You know you have expanded as an organisation when the car park of your usual village hall venue is full to the brim fifteen minutes before the event’s start time. With a promise of a great talk and grass-fed beef buns from Perrystone Meats, everyone was keen to secure a… Read more →
Winter management and seedling safari
On Wednesday 3rd December, in a welcome break between what felt like weeks of rain, we gathered with a group of farmers and land managers at Bitterly Hyde, courtesy of hosts Camilla and Henry Dangerfield, to discuss winter management of newly restored grassland and to have a go at identifying emerging seedlings. Species-rich grasslands play a significant role in improving… Read more →
Jewels beneath our feet – waxcap and grassland fungi walk
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 →
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 →