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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 →

Meadow Walk – Meadows in Miniature on the Doward

On Wednesday 23rd July we held our final Meadow Walk of the season, with poly-naturalists Ian and Ruth Draycott. It was a truly fascinating session, exploring the distinctive ecology of the Doward – an area where ancient geology supports a remarkable diversity of life, with over 5000 species recorded! We were particularly inspired by the two examples of rare calcareous… 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 →

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 →