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 →
Events
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 →
Making the most of ELM for Commons with the Foundation for Common Land
Join us for a Zoom webinar led by Joe Leaper and Lyndsey Stride from the Foundation for Common Land to hear about some of the unique challenges and opportunities of managing Commons in new funding frameworks. Of interest to Commoners, Grazing Associations, Parish Councils and anyone owning or managing Common land. This will include Introduction to the Foundation… Read more →
Seedling Safari and Winter Management practices for recently restored swards
A chance to discuss winter meadow management with or without grazing livestock to increase the chances of your restoration being successful. Alongside this we will be testing out our plant ID skills with a seedling identification session. We are very kindly being hosted by Malcolm and Ann Russell who restored 1.5ha of grassland as part of the 2022 Botanica Project supported by Air Wick… Read more →
CANCELLED DUE TO POOR WEATHER Waxcap Walk
CANCELLED DUE TO POOR WEATHER 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… Read more →
Celebrating flower rich grassland: past successes and future opportunities to integrate wood pasture and wood meadow with farming FULLY BOOKED waiting list only
Guest speaker: Dan Carne (Woodmeadow Trust) with contributions from Bob Silverwood (Natural England), Alice Keenan (National Trust) and Jonny Pugh (WUF) This will be followed by a farm walk where there will be a chance to discuss how the theory converts to practice with input from advisers who are working with Nick on a Higher Tier application for the farm… Read more →
Developing Natural Capital and Agri-environment schemes in the Woolhope Dome
Speakers: Billy Lewis “The road to regenerative farming – a North Herefordshire case study” Billy farms at Boycefield Farm, a mixed 350-acre family farm near to Dilwyn in North West Herefordshire. Billy was recently awarded the Mixed Farm Winner in this year’s Soil Farmer of the Year competition in recognition of the steps he is taking to move to a… Read more →
Grass ID Training day led by Stuart Hedley – what’s that grass and what are my livestock eating ?
On Monday 4th July we will be running a beginners Grass ID training day led by County Botanical Recorder, Stuart Hedley at Parsonage Farm, Wellington, courtesy of Lyn and Richard Langford. We will be looking at the range of grasses that can be found on a typical Herefordshire farm where there has been some diversification. Please bring: Own drinking water… Read more →
National Meadows Day
This year our National Meadows Day event is at Olchon Court Farm. We will be hosted by Anthony Furness and Miriam Griffiths who have planned an approx. 2km walk around the meadows and wood pasture mosaics that are being created and restored in the upland fringe of Herefordshire. There will be a chance to discuss balancing plant diversity and hay… Read more →