We had fantastic weather and a full house again for our penultimate summer meadow walk at Brookmead and Colwall Village Garden. Lindsay Williams, owner of Brookmead and Trustee of Colwall Orchard Group, kindly led the tour that took us to four fields all restored in 2019 with support from Herefordshire Meadows and funding from Plantlife and the Prince of Wales’… Read more →
Tag Archive for pollinators
July Newsletter
Welcome to our July Newsletter. After record-breaking temperatures this June, we have ended the month with some much-needed rain. With the meadows fast setting seed we are looking forward to a month of seed harvesting this July, with 8 donor sites due to be visited and over 60ha of receptor sites being prepped for restoration this year. Herefordshire Meadows have… Read more →
Pollinator Monitoring and Meadow Walk with Indie Jones FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY
Guided walk and a chance to learn about important meadows research and pollinator monitoring techniques, from Liverpool University PHD researcher Indie Jones. Kindly hosted by Colwall Orchard Group and Lindsay Williams. Booking through Herefordshire Rural Hub bookings@herefordshireruralhub.co.uk Joining instructions will be sent after booking. Read more →
June Newsletter
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 →
Meadow Walk and pollinator presentation FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY
FULLY BOOKED WAITING LIST ONLY Join us for a late Spring walk across the wonderful Bromyard Downs and on to a field restored in 2019 by Herefordshire Meadows Chair of Trustees, James Hawkins. Here Indie Jones, a PhD researcher from Liverpool University, will give a short presentation on the methodologies she is using to collect data on pollinator abundance and… Read more →
Get the Marches Buzzing Launch Event
Join Buglife and Herefordshire Meadows to learn more about this project and ho it is connecting up wildflower-rich habitats across Shropshire and North Herefordshire, working to restore habitats for rare and declining pollinator species like the Dingy Skipper butterfly (Erynnis tages) and the Bilberry Bumblebee (Bombus monticola). You can also find out how you can put your own building block… Read more →
Get the Marches Buzzing Project Launches
Herefordshire Meadows are very excited to announce that we will be partnering with Buglife on an ambitious, cross county project that seeks to restore 57 hectares of lowland heath and species-rich grassland across Shropshire and North Herefordshire in 2023. This project is added to the cohort of B-Lines projects running up and down the country, from Perthshire in Scotland down… Read more →
Funding bid for new meadows project in North Herefordshire
Are you a landowner in North Herefordshire? Would you like help and advice in creating wildflower-rich habitats on your land? UK conservation charity Buglife are working with partners in Shropshire and North Herefordshire to build a landscape scale, habitat connectivity project across the two counties. A bid is being put together to restore and create wildflower-rich habitats in our… Read more →
Catch up: What’s the buzz about – are all pollinator habitats equal?
On 8th June, Dr Paul Cross, senior lecturer at the School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, gave a fascinating talk on some of the key challenges facing pollinators. Drawing upon data from several large collaborative research projects, Dr Cross presented the unequivocal evidence that pollinator numbers have fallen sharply in the past 50 years. Dr Cross then went on to… Read more →
Herefordshire Meadows May Newsletter
More and more things have started bursting into life over the past month, the early spring flowers are appearing and there is a buzz in the air. Things have been busy behind the scenes too at Herefordshire Meadows. Our team has grown again as we have been joined by Maya Broadbank, a Plantlife Meadow Maker trainee. Maya has already been… Read more →