Forum 2026: Healthy Grasslands, Healthy Livestock

There was a great turnout for our Annual Forum on Saturday 28th Feb, which this year had the theme ‘Healthy Grasslands, Healthy Livestock’. A warm welcome by our Chair of Trustees Lyn Langford was followed by an overview of our achievements in 2025, and our project, advocacy and fundraising plans for 2026.  One of our proudest achievements over the last… Read more →

Update on Plantlife’s Grassland Taskforce

In the last week of January 2026 some 30 stakeholders have been invited to join the Farming and Countryside Programme’s ‘SFI Programme Forum meeting’, to discuss how they think the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) could be streamlined and changed, including whether some payments could be decreased. Read more →

Herefordshire Meadows AGM 2026

On Wednesday 7th January, we held our Annual General Meeting. You know you have expanded as an organisation when the car park of your usual village hall venue is full to the brim fifteen minutes before the event’s start time. With a promise of a great talk and grass-fed beef buns from Perrystone Meats, everyone was keen to secure a… Read more →

Winter management and seedling safari

On Wednesday 3rd December, in a welcome break between what felt like weeks of rain, we gathered with a group of farmers and land managers at Bitterly Hyde, courtesy of hosts Camilla and Henry Dangerfield, to discuss winter management of newly restored grassland and to have a go at identifying emerging seedlings. Species-rich grasslands play a significant role in improving… Read more →

Unlocking the value of grasslands through SFI reform

Last month Plantlife published a new briefing paper which it is sharing with the DEFRA Director, Mike Rowe outlining the changes they and other grassland charities would like to see made to the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) to ensure the true value of species rich grasslands are unlocked and that permanent grasslands aren’t inadvertently lost to temporary herbal leys, among… Read more →

Jewels beneath our feet – waxcap and grassland fungi walk

On Friday 7th November, our Meadow Monitors enjoyed a wonderful opportunity to take part in a grassland fungi foray at Stockings Meadow, Herefordshire Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve, led by the Fungi County Recorder, Jo Weightman. The event formed part of our extended training programme for the Meadow Monitors, designed to deepen understanding of additional indicators of grassland health, other than… Read more →