On Tuesday 15th July, a group of Wyescapes farmers and land managers gathered at Caradoc Farm to take part in our technical session on floodplain grassland restoration. We were supported by Floodplain Meadows Partnership Project Manager, Emma Rothero and Dreda Darling, who generously shared her experiences of the recent grassland restoration, and kindly delayed the haylage cut to accommodate our… Read more →
DEFRA have announced a list of 34 successful Landscape Recovery Projects. The good news is that there are two in Herefordshire See the DEFRA announcement here: Landscape Recovery: sharing the successful second round projects – Farming (blog.gov.uk) Both projects contain elements of grassland creation and restoration including floodplain meadow, lowland meadow and wet grassland opportunities. Several Herefordshire Meadows members expressed interest… Read more →
Herefordshire Meadows has had a busy year creating around 71ha of new species-rich grasslands at 24 sites across Herefordshire: 36.49ha of new species-rich grassland was created thanks our 2-year Botanica project funded by WWF & Airwick (a total of 63.5ha of species rich grassland created over 2022-2023). 18ha was created in North Herefordshire in partnership with Buglife, as part of… Read more →
Welcome to our June Newsletter. It has been catch-up time for meadows this month after a slow start to spring. On our first meadow walk event of the year at Bromyard Down we were treated to a lovely evening in the sun with far reaching views across to the Malvern Hills, and plenty of emerging flowers to admire and puzzle… Read more →
On 23rd May 2023 27 advisers from 13 organisations working in the Wye Catchment gathered at Brockhampton Hall for a training day on floodplain meadows funded by Environment Agency and Wye Valley AONB. Mark Wood and Chris Hudson hosted the day and provided delicious grass fed beef lunch (https://perrystonemeats.co.uk/) and showed us meadow restorations underway on the floodplain at Fawley… Read more →
Andy Rumming talking to the group at Waterhay Farm near Swindon. Thanks to Environment Agency and Wye Valley AONB Wye Water Resources Project we took a bus and a few farm trucks to visit Andy’s beef system on the Thames floodplain. It was a great opportunity to visit a farm producing high quality beef and leather in a low cost… Read more →
Despite the gloomy weather and national lockdown here at Herefordshire Meadows we are heading into 2021 with plenty of hope and optimism. There are lots of exciting things to come with the launch of the Meadow Makers project and the arrival of two new team members. Keep reading for more information on all this and more. Upcoming events: Tuesday… Read more →
