An opportunity to come together and share and celebrate the work carried out by landowners across the county in 2024 to support species rich grasslands. Guest speaker, Dan Carne, Director of the Woodmeadow Makers will provide an insight into how diverse grasslands fit into a healthy ecosystem mosaic drawing. He will draw upon insights gathered as part of his Churchill… Read more →
Events
Herefordshire Meadows Winter Webinar – ELMS Grassland Options Update
There have been a lot of recent updates to the new Sustainable Farming Incentive which forms part of the DEFRA’s Environmental Land Management scheme. This has included the release of the first endorsed options which includes GRH6 – Manage priority habitat species-rich grassland. Herefordshire Meadows’ Advisers have been working closely with this endorsement process and will share their insights and… Read more →
Herefordshire Meadows AGM with Guest Speaker John Phillips
Herefordshire Meadow’s AGM will this year be held in Holme Lacy Village Hall and we are delighted that John Phillips will be joining as our guest speaker. John Phillips is the Grazing & Landscape Manager at Epping Forest, a 3,600ha ancient Forest that stretches 20km from East London into Essex. The landscape of Epping Forest has a long historical culture… Read more →
Waxcap Walk
Join us at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust’s Sturts North Nature Reserve on Monday 4th November for our annual Autumn waxcap ID walk with fungi recorders, Jo Weightman and David Williamson, and courtesy of Lewis Goldwater, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust From 10.00-12.00. This is a great chance to: Identify some of the more distinctive waxcap fungi (Download the Plantlife Waxcap guide to your… Read more →
Get the Marches Buzzing! Online End of Project Event
Find out more about Get the Marches Buzzing and how the project worked to restore flower-rich habitat for pollinators including the rate Dingy Skipper (Erynnis tages) and Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola). Find out how you can add your own flower-rich habitat on to Buglife’s B-Lines map too! To book, visit our TryBooking page or email Emily.Hughes@buglife.org.uk. Read more →
Meadows and invertebrates
Join us for our final evening meadow walk of the season where we focus on all the little bugs and beasties that live and thrive in the species rich grassland of the Mowley Valley courtesy of the Bulmer family and the Mowley Valley project coordinator, Catherine Janson. Follow this link to book your FREE place https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meadows-and-invertebrates-tickets-907823272847 Read more →
Meadow Walk and medicinal plants
Join us for our third evening meadow walk at Broadmoor Common Local Nature Reserve where we will be joined by botanist and qualified medical herbalist Rowan Mconegal who advocates the living tradition of herbal medicine and will guide us through some of the amazing properties of our native meadow plants. Follow this link to book your FREE place https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meadow-walk-and-medicinal-plants-tickets-907817926857 Read more →
National Meadows Day walk at Urishay Court Farm
For National Meadows Day this year we will be visiting some fabulous grasslands at Urishay Court Farm courtesy of Tom and Catherine Oliver. A chance to see a range of meadows and pastures where the main restoration interventions have been ongoing since 2018 through changes in grassland management rather than the introduction of wildflower seed. Tom’s restoration strategy has an… Read more →
Meadow Walk and Native Anthotype Exploration
Join us for our first evening meadow walk of 2024 where we explore the wonderful meadows at Bythan courtesy of Hilary Hillier. We will have the opportunity to visit fields which were selected as new Local Wildlife Sites in 2022 as well as visiting a 2019 restoration site. Joining us for the evening will be Ledbury based artist Paul Ligas… Read more →
Donate to Herefordshire Meadows this April and double your money!
We are excited to announce that Herefordshire Meadows has been selected to participate in the Big Give – Green Match Fund 2024 campaign, meaning that for one week starting at midday on Thursday 18th April, any donations received by Herefordshire Meadows through our Big Give campaign page will be matched by the Green Match Fund! If you have ever considered… Read more →