A big thank you to Rich Thomas who hosted the third event in our Meadows, Mosaics and Mitigating Climate Change spring series. We kicked off the afternoon with guest speaker Sam Hollick (Bangor University) who spoke to us about his research on shelterbelts and how they can be integrated into grassland systems to help improve livestock productivity and resilience. We then went out… Read more →
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Making Meadows across Herefordshire
With the support of various funders, since 2019 Herefordshire Meadows members have been able to carry out meadow restoration works across the county. Most recently, in 2021, as a partner on Plantlife’s Green Recovery Challenge Fund Meadow Makers project we have restored over 56ha of additional wildflower meadows across Herefordshire. Below is a map showing where we have been working.… Read more →
Wood Meadows with George Peterken
Kicking off our series of spring talks entitled Meadows, Mosaics and Mitigating Climate Change George Peterken, renowned woodland ecologist, nature conservation advisor and author of the book Meadows (2013 British Wildlife Collection), gave a fascinating presentation on the topic of wood meadows. After first introducing the concept and showing some examples of traditional wood meadows in Europe, specifically in the Baltic states… Read more →
Floodplain Meadows Partnership Conference 2021
This online conference is taking place over 3 days with morning and early evening sessions. Keynote speakers include Barry Gardiner MP, Tine Christiansen (European Environment Agency) and Tony Juniper (Chair, Natural England). Topics of discussion will include; soil carbon storage, natural flood management, strategic floodplain meadow restoration and many more. More information about the event and how to purchase tickets can… Read more →
Introduction to Plant Identification – rapid monitoring method
Stuart Hedley will lead a zoom session on meadow plant identification aimed at beginners and improvers. We will focus on an introduction to our rapid monitoring method because it gives us a quick way to assess changes in plants due to meadow management and restoration. This is a must for those in the 2021 Meadow Makers project and anyone else… Read more →
Leading a Green Recovery
Exciting news today for Herefordshire Meadows. You can read more about it on the Plantlife blog and in our official press release Read more →
Marvellous Meadows in the Wye Valley
On the hottest day in August we contributed to a short film about meadow restoration at The Hyde in Woolhope, thanks to JOhn and Mary Windham. This was one of three short films commissioned for the Wye Valley AONB’s 2020 Wye Valley River Festival. You can watch the video below and catch up with a discussion session that follows with… Read more →
Seedling Safari – First Stop of the Season
This is the first of our autumn seedling safaris and is a great chance to see a meadow in early establishment. Matt Pitts, Plantlife’s Meadow Adviser will be joining us to look at a restoration a few weeks after seeding where our host Ian Horsley has recently enhanced some permanent pasture with wildflower seed through the Boost for Biodiversity programme.… Read more →
Pollinator Meadows 2020 restoration underway after Zoom training for all involved
We are delighted to be working in partnership with Plantlife again this summer as part of the Pollinator Meadows 2020 project to restore and create flower rich meadows with funding from The Duke of Cornwall’s Benevolent Fund. We’d like to thank everyone who applied to take part this year and those who have agreed to donate seed for this exciting… Read more →
Have your say in the ELM policy discussion – closes 31 July 2020
This is a chance to feed your ideas and views on grassland, and other crops and habitats, to The Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme that is the new agricultural policy for England. You can feedback to DEFRA on the discussion questions as an individual You can also feed comments on meadows and diverse swards to Caroline Hanks who is collating… Read more →