A very big thank you to Kate Gatacre who hosted this year’s seedling safari and winter meadow management training day at The Batches in Brockmanton. Kate has restored 4.55ha of species poor grassland using funds very generously provided by Herefordshire Council via their Natural Flood Management (NFM) Project and brush harvested seed from Bromyard Downs. After an introduction to the… Read more →
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Seedling Safari and Winter Management practices for recently restored swards
A very big thank you to Malcolm and Ann Russell who hosted this year’s seedling safari and winter meadow management training day at Westfield Steading on a misty late November day. Malcolm and Ann have restored 1.5ha of species poor grassland as part of the Airwick – WWF-UK project using brush harvested seed from two local donor sites. After an… Read more →
Seedling Safari – 21st Oct 2020
Seedling Safari – First Stop of the Season. Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Herefordshire Meadows Group discussion this week, it was great to be out in the field, despite the torrential rain. Many thanks to Ian Horsley of Baston Hall for hosting the event and showing us his young seedlings and letting us explore his older, flower… Read more →
The wildflower seedling’s view – guidance notes for the first year of meadow restoration projects from Plantlife
While we’ve been restoring and creating meadows in Herefordshire we’ve learned so much and are now sharing experience of best practice, the challenges and pitfalls of each stage of the work. We’ve had to face up to the fact that there isn’t a simple recipe or prescription for guaranteed success in meadow restoration. The good news is that Plantlife are… Read more →
Virtual Seedling Safari – 16th April 2020- with Matt Pitts of Plantlife
Thanks to everyone who joined the virtual safari on a sunny afternoon from home offices on 16th April 2020 while we are unable to meet on farm as a Group . The silver lining is that we were able to visit many more meadows in one afternoon than would have been possible otherwise. We ranged across Herefordshire from Shenmore, Madley,… Read more →