Tag Archive for meadows

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 →

Meadows and Ponds event a great success

On Wednesday 11th June we hosted the first of our 2025 evening meadow walks at Parsonage Farm courtesy of Lyn and Richard Langford in conjunction with the Herefordshire Pond Group. The walk took place in a field that was restored from species rich grassland to wildflower meadow in 2020 as part of our Pollinator Meadows project supported by Plantlife and… Read more →

May 2025 Newsletter

Newsletter Title May 2025 Newsletter Below is a roundup of our activities over the last few weeks, and information about our upcoming program of summer events.Click here to open in browser if you have trouble viewing this newsletter Upcoming Events Book onto our program of Meadow Walks!We have an exciting program of events for you this summer, with meadow walks… Read more →

Seeking Meadow Monitors – NEW Volunteer Role Summer 2025 

Herefordshire Meadows needs your help this summer to re-visit county meadows that have benefitted from past restoration efforts. Across Herefordshire, grasslands and fields were subject to improvement efforts in 2021 as part of the fantastic Plantlife ‘Meadow Makers’ initiative. Now, we want to find out what has happened at those sites. We would love to demonstrate the successes in boosting… Read more →

More meadows in 2024!

Herefordshire Meadows had another successful year in 2024 supporting the creation of 58ha of species-rich grasslands at 21 sites across Herefordshire including: This year’s work brings the 6-year total to around 297 hectares of species rich grassland created across the county! Thank you to all our partners and funders, and all the landowners committed to creating species-rich grassland on their… Read more →

Spring 2024 Big Give campaign update

Earlier this year you helped us to raise over £14,000 during our ‘For the Love of Meadows in Herefordshire’ campaign, hosted by Big Give.  Thanks to your generosity, and to Big Give for match-funding your donations, we have been able to spend the last few months delivering events and training aimed at inspiring better understanding, management and preservation of meadows… Read more →