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National Meadows Day 2026

Join us on Saturday 4th July at Hill House Farm courtesy of James and Victoria Hawkins to celebrate ‘Healthy Soils, Healthy Plants, Healthy Livestock’ at our 2026 National Meadows Day which also marks Herefordshire Meadows’ 10th Anniversary. We will begin by delving into the microscopic world of soil biology using our trinocular soil microscope to reveal the kaleidoscope of life… 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 →

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 →

Meadows and Mental Health

For our second meadow walk of the summer we were very kindly hosted by Adhisthana, a Buddhist centre in Coddington. Adhisthana was one of our 2021 Meadow Maker sites and we supported them to create a new meadow on site using seed from an existing meadow which they had created in 2012. We began the walk in the newly established… Read more →