Firstly – a message Plantlife: Following the resounding success of meadows groups in Carmarthenshire and Monmouthshire, and the newly launched Ceredigion Group, Plantlife and the Bannau Brycheiniog National Park Authority are keen to see a similar initiative in the National … Continue reading
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Late Hay Cut – Pros and Cons
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Andrew Martin comments: There has been an interesting discussion on the CMG Facebook Group about late hay cutting. If your main priority is to get maximum floral diversity in the meadow (rather than the best hay crop), then cutting later … Continue reading
Useful research paper – wildflowers and carbon capture
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A research paper has recently been published describing a nice experiment carried out in Surrey. It’s now well known that Wildflower meadows can make a significant contribution to carbon capture and sequestration, but there are various different ways of establishing … Continue reading
Have you had a go at the Big Meadow Search?
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The Big Meadow Search (BMS) started out in 2021 as a modest project just for our county, to get more of an idea of which plants were in grassland on our members’ land. It arose from a discussion in the … Continue reading
A Guided Walk Around The Meadows At Dinefwr Park – Sunday 7 July 2-4pm
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The East Carmarthenshire Local Group of the Wildlige Trust of South and West Wales is holding a guided walk at Dinefwr this Sunday 7th July. Meeting point: Dinefwr Park Llandeilo SA19 6RT at the visitor centre car park just before … Continue reading
Request for help – permablitz at Llanarthney – Sunday 7 July
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A request for help from Dana and Stu on a relatively new permaculture/regenerative land based project adjacent to the national botanical gardens. Permablitz at Coed Glas, Llanarthney, SA32 8HS. Pin drop https://maps.app.goo.gl/nYY7m5B8L3CuLBcY9Please enter up the brand new track – not yet … Continue reading
Plantlife Orchid Count – 4 July – Cae Blaen-Dyffryn
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Plantlife are planning an orchid count day at its Carmarthenshire based reserve – Cae Blaen-Dyffryn for the 4th July. This is a second count to test the reliability of the counting across the two weeks and to ensure they haven’t missed … Continue reading
Reminder – Carbon Community Meadow walk – this Sunday 15 June.
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Recently we posted that this was taking place: “On Sunday 15th June, the Carbon Community will be hosting meadow walks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The Carbon Community, near Cynghordy, is a charity set up to … Continue reading
Event Report – Equipment day Sunday 19 May 2024
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As proposed at our Spring Meeting on April 13th, CMG held an “Equipment Day” on Sunday 19th May. The event was on a smallholding belonging to one of our members, so for security reasons we couldn’t invite non-members, so we … Continue reading
Meadow Walk – Sunday 15 June – at the Carbon Community, Cynghordy
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On Sunday 15th June, the Carbon Community will be hosting meadow walks, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The Carbon Community, near Cynghordy, is a charity set up to conduct trials and research into the best ways … Continue reading