Do you manage land between Coughton and Marstow? You are invited to Goodrich Village Hall, HR9 6HX November 8th 5 – 7 pm to find out about Funding opportunities for habitat enhancement such as flower rich grassland restoration and creation, wood pasture, hedge planting and restoration, orchard creation Free advisory visit to explore your objectives from local advisers AONB application… Read more →
Events
Waxcap Walk – CHANGE OF VENUE – Now being held in Eaton Bishop
Join us for an autumnal ID day at Stockings Meadow Nature Reserve led by Jo Weightman, the Herefordshire Fungus Recorder and courtesy of David Hutton, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust. This is a great chance to: Identify some of the more distinctive waxcap fungi (Download the Plantlife Waxcap guide to your phone or device and bring small UNlidded plastic container(s) with you)… Read more →
Festival of Wildlife
Rory Johnson from Herefordshire Meadows will be leading a Meadow Walk at this event which is open to everyone of any age who is interested in recording and learning about our county’s wildlife. Activities will include dissecting owl pellets, foraging, pond dipping, crafts and much more. Hellens cafe will also be open on the day. FREE ENTRY Read more →
HEREFORDSHIRE MEADOWS ANNUAL FORUM – NIKKI YOXALL – DIVERSITY IN GRASSLAND SYSTEMS: The key to agroecological TRANSITION
All welcome to our ANNUAL FORUM. SPEAKERS – DISCUSSION – REFRESHMENTS – NETWORKING Of interest to anyone who wants to find out more about the benefits of plant diversity, holisitic grazing systems, matching livestock to available resources, reducing dependency on inputs, transition pathways and many other kinds of diversity. DIVERSITY IN GRASSLAND SYSTEMS: The key to agroecological TRANSITION … Read more →
Evening Meadow Walk with Herefordshire Meadows FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY
Guided walk through the meadows at Far House Farm, a chance to see them at their mid-summer best and learn about their management. Kindly hosted by Joanna & Bruce Jenkyn Jones Booking through Herefordshire Rural Hub bookings@herefordshireruralhub.co.uk Joining instructions will be sent after booking. Read more →
Pollinator Monitoring and Meadow Walk with Indie Jones FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY
Guided walk and a chance to learn about important meadows research and pollinator monitoring techniques, from Liverpool University PHD researcher Indie Jones. Kindly hosted by Colwall Orchard Group and Lindsay Williams. Booking through Herefordshire Rural Hub bookings@herefordshireruralhub.co.uk Joining instructions will be sent after booking. Read more →
National Meadows Day – Herefordshire’s Coronation Meadow 10 years on
National Meadows Day is Plantlife’s annual event held at locations around the country each Summer to celebrate our magnificent meadows. This event at Hurstans, led by Herefordshire Meadows, is a chance to visit one of the original coronation meadow project restoration sites. Seed from the county coronation meadow, Joan’s Hill was introduced in 2013 and in 2022 the site was… Read more →
Meadow Walk and pollinator presentation FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY
FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY Join us for a late Spring walk across the wonderful Bromyard Downs and on to a field restored in 2019 by Herefordshire Meadows Chair of Trustees, James Hawkins. Here Indie Jones, a PhD researcher from Liverpool University, will give a short presentation on the methodologies she is using to collect data on pollinator abundance and… Read more →
Get the Marches Buzzing Launch Event
Join Buglife and Herefordshire Meadows to learn more about this project and ho it is connecting up wildflower-rich habitats across Shropshire and North Herefordshire, working to restore habitats for rare and declining pollinator species like the Dingy Skipper butterfly (Erynnis tages) and the Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola). You can also find out how you can put your own building block… Read more →
Farming in a Floodplain
FARMING IN A FLOODPLAIN Join us for a visit to beef farmer Andy Rumming at Waterhay Farm Producing high quality beef and making best use of water on the farm, plus many other benefits. Come and find out how Andy makes this work financially. Could this be part of the solution on your farm to climate and ecological… Read more →