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More meadows in 2024!

Herefordshire Meadows had another successful year in 2024 supporting the creation of 58ha of species-rich grasslands at 21 sites across Herefordshire including: This year’s work brings the 6-year total to around 297 hectares of species rich grassland created across the county! Thank you to all our partners and funders, and all the landowners committed to creating species-rich grassland on their… Read more →

From Mud Pies to Microbes – Celebrating World Soil Day

To celebrate World Soil Day on Thursday 5th December, Meadows Adviser Rory Johnson was invited to be on the panel of an event organised by Angela Lloyd at Grange Court in Leominster. There was a whole host of stimulating questions covering a wide range of topics and highlighting how improving soil health is central to mitigating the climate and biodiversity… Read more →

We are looking for a Meadows Adviser to join the team – closing date 14 February 2025

Meadows Adviser – Herefordshire Meadows We’re looking for someone to join our small team of dedicated advisers: If you’re from the farming or conservation world, with some small scale project management experience and are enthusiastic about diverse swards in the farmed and wider landscape please see the job description below for more information and application details. https://www.herefordshiremeadows.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Job-Description-December-2024-5.pdf Interested applicants should… Read more →

WEIF Project Update

This year we have been supporting landowners in the Frome, Arrow, Lugg and Wye catchments to carry out species rich grassland restoration and enhancement works with support from the Environment Agency’s Water Environment Improvement Fund (WEIF). We have worked with 10 different landowners to: The project will increase biodiversity, reduce nutrient use and run off, improve soil health, improve animal… Read more →

Herefordshire Meadows AGM with guest speaker John Phillips

This year’s AGM was held on Tuesday 3rd December at Holme Lacey Village Hall with guest speaker John Phillips Grazing & Landscape Manager at Epping Forest. Cattle grazing plays a crucial role in the management of Epping Forest’s extensive and nationally important habitat mosaic of veteran trees, woodland, pasture, heathland and scrub, and was home to the UK’s first ever… Read more →

Winter Management and seedling ID training day 2024

A very big thank you to Kate Gatacre who hosted this year’s seedling safari and winter meadow management training day at The Batches in Brockmanton. Kate has restored 4.55ha of species poor grassland using funds very generously provided by Herefordshire Council via their Natural Flood Management (NFM) Project and brush harvested seed from Bromyard Downs. After an introduction to the… Read more →

National Grasslands Conference 2024

This year the National Meadows Conference was held in South Shropshire on Friday 15th November. The event brings together meadows groups and advocates from across the country as well as larger national charities including Plantlife and Buglife. The event offers a fantastic opportunity to network and share ideas and also to celebrate all the positive work being doing across the… Read more →

Waxcap Walk at Sturts North

On Monday 4th November Herefordshire Meadows held a waxcap walk at Hererfordshire Wildlife Trust’s Sturts North Nature Reserve, looking for autumnal indicators of good grassland diversity and soil health.The session was led by Jo Weightman and David Williamson from Herefordshire Fungus Group, who helped us to identify the various and sometimes colourful waxcaps on show as well as a variety… Read more →