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 →
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Wyescapes: Food, Nature, Water – Stakeholder Workshop
Wyescapes is a Landscape Recovery Project for the Rivers Wye and Lugg spanning the river corridor from Leominster to Symonds Yat. The Herefordshire Rural Hub are developing plans that will help restore river habitats, support nature recovery and improve public access and engagement with the landscape, whilst producing high-quality food through sustainable, climate-resilient farming. Who is this workshop for?… 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 →
Trees or Grasslands for a sustainable future?
Join Monmouthshire Meadows for a debate on the benefits of grasslands, floodplainmeadows and trees for carbon storage with: Jenny Knight – Stump Up for TreesCaroline O’Rourke – Floodplain Meadows PartnershipJoe Hasely – Duchy of Cornwall Following a brief presentation from each of our speakers we will break for tea and cake and then reconvene for questionsand a panel debate. Venue:… 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 →
Ross Walking Festival – Walk 6 Meadows and Flowers
This walk with the Wye Valley NL Team explores the maze of traditional tiny fields, lanes and woodland tracks around Brockweir and The Hudnalls, uncovering the fascinating story of The Flower Patch. Flora Klickman (editor of The Girl’s Own Paper and Woman’s Magazine) lived here 1928 to1958 and wrote a series of books inspired by her ‘flower patch’. She kept… Read more →
A Presentation on the use of Virtual Fencing and GPS Cattle Collars
As part of the Bromyard Downs Common Association ADM grazing and Grasslands Manager John Phillips will be giving a presentation on the use of Virtual Fencing and GPS cattle collars at Epping Forest. Epping Forest is a 3,200Ha ancient wood pasture landscape stretching from East London into Essex receiving over 15 million visitors a year. The site has been owned… Read more →
Herefordshire Grassland Society Summer Farm Walk & Barbecue
HEREFORDSHIRE GRASSLAND SOCIETYSUMMER FARM WALK & BARBECUETUESDAY 4TH JUNE 2024 6:30PMBY KIND PERMISSION OF FRED & ROSIE SIMCOCK WOOFIELDS, CODDINGTON, LEDBURYHR8 1JJ (WHAT3WORDS/// OTTER.AREA.SPILL) 21ST CENTURY DAIRY FARMING – HAPPY PEOPLE MAKE HAPPY COWS -THE ROAD TO NET ZERO We are keen recruit new members! This event is open to members and non-members. So why not bring your family,… Read more →
Parry’sfield Scythe Festival
15th – 21st July. Scything demonstrations and training. Camping, Walks, Talks, Live Music & a new chef every night, Pizzas, Curry, Paella, Bring food to share, & Scything too! contact david.kuegler@btinternet.com to book. Read more →