Plantlife Cymru recently had an excellent series of webinars on meadow creation and monitoring. They covered how to start off a meadow both on a small scale in an average garden, and on a large field scale, and the various … Continue reading
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Blwyddyn Newydd Dda – first online meeting of the year is 6 Jan.
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The first CMG meeting of the new year will be on Thursday evening (Jan 6th) starting at 7:30pm, when we’ll be hearing from Abigail Lowe who has recently completed her PhD project at the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Abi … Continue reading
Nocturnal Woodcock in Meadows Over Winter
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Thank you Julian for this thoughtful and winter centred post: We’re past the worst. As I began to tap this out on the morning of December 22nd, I can say this with confidence. The days are now extending, the nights … Continue reading
Online presentation tonight that might be of interest.
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Short notice, I know – but its just come to our attention:
Moor Meadows is a Dartmoor based community group of landowners, farmers and gardeners whose passion is restoring and creating flower-rich grasslands, on every scale, for nature and for people. They have an online event this evening that may be of interest:
Conservation grazing is livestock grazing that promotes biodiversity, encouraging wildflowers as well as creating a diversity of habitats for wildlife. Speakers address animal welfare when grazing for wildlife; carbon storage of different grassland types and best practice for grazing wet meadows.
Register for Moor Meadows’ next online talk – this evening – Thursday 9th December, 7.30pm
Register here: https://part2conservationgrazing.eventbrite.co.uk
Link to recording of Sorcha Lewis’ talk on 25 November.
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Anyone who missed Sorcha Lewis’s talk on the meadows and grasslands of the Elan Valley but who would like to see it can now do so on the CMG’s YouTube channel. the link is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTcDQ2OsV0E. Sorcha describes some valuable work that … Continue reading
Reminder – online meeting Thursday night at 7.30
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Don’t forget our next meeting on Thursday 25th November at 7:30pm, when we’ll be hearing from Sorcha Lewis about her farm in the Elan Valley, If you’re a CMG member you’ll be sent details of how to join the meeting, … Continue reading
Meadow Making Event – Creating a Meadow Management plan for your site
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Friday 26 November, 9:30am-12:30 This is an in person event at Denmark Farm Conservation Centre – and is being run by Plantlife Cymru. Details below: Tickets / Tocynnau: https://tixoom.app/plantlife/rp9efgys Denmark Farm Conservation Centre, Betws Bledrws, Lampeter SA48 8PB This session … Continue reading
Podcast – more on fungi
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If you were one of the participants at our recent meeting featuring Bruce Langridge’s talk on Farming and Fungi, you’ll remember Emma Williams and her useful contributions to the Q&A and discussion after the talk. Emma is one of Wales’ … Continue reading
An important message – Brown Hairstreaks
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Those of you on Facebook – and/or otherwise interested in the wellbeing of butterflies may already have seen the important request by Richard Smith (Butterfly Conservation) for a change in hedge flailing practices. We are reposting it here: “Dear all,In … Continue reading
Anyone for (fungi) croquet? –
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A wonderful and seasonal post from Julian on the spread of fungi. This post is about a mossy croquet lawn, not really a meadow, but bear with me. I’m guessing it’s one of the highest, and mossiest in the land, … Continue reading
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