Jo Riggall’s Grassland Gap talk in February highlighted that grassland is often the poor relation compared with peatland and woodland and this is clearly the case when we look at research evidence about the role of diverse, deep rooted, well rested swards and the ecosystem services they provide in addition to food production. With Environment Agency funding hosted by Herefordshire… Read more →
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Flower Rich Grassland Management & Restoration Advice Service for Land Managers in the Wye Valley AONB
Herefordshire Meadows is excited to be involved in a new Wye Valley AONB project to provide support to grassland farmers and land managers in the Herefordshire portion of the Wye Valley AONB. This work is funded by the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) Programme, which is being administered by the Wye Valley AONB on behalf of DEFRA, as part of… Read more →
HEREFORDSHIRE MEADOWS ANNUAL FORUM – NIKKI YOXALL – DIVERSITY IN GRASSLAND SYSTEMS: The key to agroecological TRANSITION
All welcome to our ANNUAL FORUM. SPEAKERS – DISCUSSION – REFRESHMENTS – NETWORKING Of interest to anyone who wants to find out more about the benefits of plant diversity, holisitic grazing systems, matching livestock to available resources, reducing dependency on inputs, transition pathways and many other kinds of diversity. DIVERSITY IN GRASSLAND SYSTEMS: The key to agroecological TRANSITION … Read more →
Farming in a Floodplain
FARMING IN A FLOODPLAIN Join us for a visit to beef farmer Andy Rumming at Waterhay Farm Producing high quality beef and making best use of water on the farm, plus many other benefits. Come and find out how Andy makes this work financially. Could this be part of the solution on your farm to climate and ecological… Read more →
Grassland Carbon – restoration, creation and management practices that affect carbon sequestration in grasslands
Caroline Hanks (Herefordshire Meadows) chaired a sequence of talks and a panel discussion at a Zoom event hosted by Plantlife as part of their Meadow Makers partnership, that gave an introduction to the rapidly evolving science on grassland carbon. Drawing upon the findings from her 2021 report for CIEEM entitled Carbon and Ecosystems: Restoration and Creation to Capture Carbon Penny Anderson… Read more →
Multi species leys Part 1 – virtual field day webinar with Agricology
If you missed this webinar with speakers from Duchy College TOMS project, North Wyke ( Rothamsted) and others on all the joys, benefits and challenges of establishing herbal leys. There are references to more permanent native swards as well. You can listen again on Youtube Read more →