Tag Archive for soil carbon

Herefordshire Meadows AGM 2026

On Wednesday 7th January, we held our Annual General Meeting. You know you have expanded as an organisation when the car park of your usual village hall venue is full to the brim fifteen minutes before the event’s start time. With a promise of a great talk and grass-fed beef buns from Perrystone Meats, everyone was keen to secure a… Read more →

From Mud Pies to Microbes – Celebrating World Soil Day

To celebrate World Soil Day on Thursday 5th December, Meadows Adviser Rory Johnson was invited to be on the panel of an event organised by Angela Lloyd at Grange Court in Leominster. There was a whole host of stimulating questions covering a wide range of topics and highlighting how improving soil health is central to mitigating the climate and biodiversity… Read more →

August Newsletter

Welcome to our August Newsletter.  After a dry month and record-breaking heat in June we have been treated to one of the wettest Julys on record, and a very difficult year for making hay.  Our seed harvesting plans have also been very disrupted, but with the occasional dry day we have managed to harvest from all our intended donor sites… 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 →