On Monday 24th June, the weather finally delivered for our first evening meadow walk of the year. The event was kindly hosted by Hilary Hillier at Bythan, Avenbury, who has been restoring grassland for 20 years using a variety of methods including green hay, local provenance seed and plug planting with great success. One of the fields visited during the… Read more →
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National Meadows Day – Herefordshire’s Coronation Meadow 10 years on
National Meadows Day is Plantlife’s annual event held at locations around the country each Summer to celebrate our magnificent meadows. This event at Hurstans, led by Herefordshire Meadows, is a chance to visit one of the original coronation meadow project restoration sites. Seed from the county coronation meadow, Joan’s Hill was introduced in 2013 and in 2022 the site was… Read more →
A Wilder Herefordshire Project
We are excited to announce that we will be working this summer to support Herefordshire Wildlife Trust deliver a part of their Green Recovery Challenge Fund project ‘A Wilder Herefordshire’. Herefordshire Meadows will be working with landowners across the county to identify and select new, grassland Local Wildlife Sites (LWS). As well as surveying these botanically diverse sites we will… Read more →