A chance to lean about Floodplain Meadows, their history, management and restoration. The event will be run by staff members from the Floodplain Meadows Partnership and Herefordshire Meadows who are working with Herefordshire Wildlife Trust in the restoration of the Meadows. Topics covered will include: Introduction to the Meadows, recent history and plans for restoration Introduction to Floodplain Meadows, their… Read more →
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Wyescapes: Food, Nature, Water – Stakeholder Workshop
Wyescapes is a Landscape Recovery Project for the Rivers Wye and Lugg spanning the river corridor from Leominster to Symonds Yat. The Herefordshire Rural Hub are developing plans that will help restore river habitats, support nature recovery and improve public access and engagement with the landscape, whilst producing high-quality food through sustainable, climate-resilient farming. Who is this workshop for?… Read more →
Herefordshire Meadows September Newsletter
Follow the link to read our September newsletter September Newsletter 2024 Read more →
Meadow Walk and Native Anthotype Exploration
Join us for our first evening meadow walk of 2024 where we explore the wonderful meadows at Bythan courtesy of Hilary Hillier. We will have the opportunity to visit fields which were selected as new Local Wildlife Sites in 2022 as well as visiting a 2019 restoration site. Joining us for the evening will be Ledbury based artist Paul Ligas… Read more →
Meadow walk at Far House Farm – the power of natural regeneration to restore a mosaic of meadow, pasture, woodland and orchard
The final meadow walk of the season was at Far House Farm, Maescoed on 11th July with many thanks to our hosts and generous Herefordshire Meadows supporters Joanna and Bruce Jenkyn Jones. We started next to lovely flowery strips of meadow plants beside the drive that were created after nearby building work and were treated to a scything demo there… Read more →
First Summer Meadow Walk at Bromyard Downs and Warren Farm
On the 22nd May twenty nine keen attendees set off across Bromyard Downs and down onto Warren Farm in the early evening sunshine for the first of this year’s Meadow Walks. James Hawkins, Chair of the Bromyard Downs Commoners Association, tenant farmer at Warren Farm and Herefordshire Meadows Chair of Trustees, kindly led the tour through the land he manages,… Read more →
Towards a strategy for restoring Floodplain Meadows in the Wye Valley –
On 23rd May 2023 27 advisers from 13 organisations working in the Wye Catchment gathered at Brockhampton Hall for a training day on floodplain meadows funded by Environment Agency and Wye Valley AONB. Mark Wood and Chris Hudson hosted the day and provided delicious grass fed beef lunch (https://perrystonemeats.co.uk/) and showed us meadow restorations underway on the floodplain at Fawley… Read more →
Flower rich meadows: where to begin?
If you are curious about creating a wildflower meadow but uncertain how – or perhaps even why – to begin, there are some brilliant resources available online to guide you through the very basics. Vicky Bowskill, farmland ecology researcher and writer of the blog “Tales from the Quadrat”, has created a short video to describe why meadows are such vital… Read more →
Principles of Creating Flower Rich Meadows
Caroline Hanks and Sue Holland will share their experience and answer questions on the principles of meadow creation and restoration. Topics covered will include; what to think about when planning a meadow restoration, plus examples of some of the restoration methods Herefordshire Meadows’ members have used in recent years. This is for anyone who’s new to meadow creation and restoration,… Read more →
Meadow Restoration One Year On
Thanks to everyone who joined us this week to see the progress of meadow restoration one year on. Many thanks to Hilary Hillier who kindly showed us around her lovely meadows at Bythan, and particularly the meadow she enhanced a year ago with seed from Plantlife’s Joan’s Hill reserve as part of the 2019 NRN pilot . It was great to… Read more →