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Westminster Grassland Conference

On Tuesday 15th October Herefordshire Meadows Chair of Trustees, James Hawkins and Co-Directors Caroline Hanks and Rory Johnson travelled down to the Houses of Parliament to attend Plantlife’s Grassland Westminster Reception sponsored by Wera Hobhouse MP. The event, attended by farmers, NGOs, corporate partners MPs and Peers called on the UK Government and DEFRA to unlock the value of grasslands… Read more →

Species-Rich Grassland Project in the Wye Valley National Landscape

Over the last few months Herefordshire Meadows have been delivering a project aimed at identifying, surveying and mapping some of the best species-rich meadows in the Wye Valley National Landscape, with funding from the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) Programme, administered by the WVNL on behalf of DEFRA. This summer we have surveyed grassland at 15 land holdings where there… Read more →

Seed Harvesting 2024 update

Over 6 days in late July, the Herefordshire Meadows seed harvesting team visited 6 very special meadows to spend a day collecting, sifting, sorting, weighing and distributing a total of 500kg of seed-rich mix, which this autumn will be used to restore around 27ha of grassland at 13 land holdings. Many of this year’s restoration sites are in North Herefordshire,… Read more →

Spring 2024 Big Give campaign update

Earlier this year you helped us to raise over £14,000 during our ‘For the Love of Meadows in Herefordshire’ campaign, hosted by Big Give.  Thanks to your generosity, and to Big Give for match-funding your donations, we have been able to spend the last few months delivering events and training aimed at inspiring better understanding, management and preservation of meadows… Read more →

Evening Meadow Walk at Mowley Valley

On Wednesday 7th August, we hosted our fifth and final summer evening meadow walk of the season at the magnificent Mowley Valley in North West Herefordshire. The valley is currently managed as a large scale habitat mosaic consisting of species rich grasslands, semi-natural ancient woodland, scrapes and rough edges and all dissected by the River Arrow. The focus of the… Read more →