Plantlife has joined forces with Bumblebee Conservation Trust and Butterfly Conservation to form the Grasslands+ coalition: They have teamed up to campaign for grasslands to be protected and enhanced – with a focus upon the lead up to the COP26 … Continue reading →

Do you know your ligules from your glumes?  The Big Meadow Search – and there are still a couple of days left in July to search some more – has been a good reminder (to me at least) that identifying … Continue reading →

If you’ve been following this website for a couple of years, you might remember this post from July 2019: https://carmarthenshiremeadows.com/2019/07/25/visit-to-the-national-botanic-garden-of-wales-to-see-results-of-green-hay-experiment/ In summary, on that occasion a group of CMG members were shown round parts of the Waun Las National Nature Reserve … Continue reading →

Webinar 8 July: Ecosystems Knowledge Network run webinars to share good practice, new tools and resources around the UK. You can join the network for free and take advantage of the wealth of information available. A link to their webpage … Continue reading →

Each year CMG gets quite a number of enquiries from meadow owners looking for someone who will cut their fields at the right time. We know that often the bigger commercial contractors are flat out cutting on large sites when … Continue reading →

Don’t forget that the Big Meadow Search (BMS) will be running during Wales Nature Week (30th May – 6thJune).  To recap; we’re asking for volunteers to do something like the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch, only it’ll be to record plants rather than … Continue reading →

We recently posted here about a number of talks that we thought our members might find interesting. One of those we highlighted was a three part series on Conservation Grazing organised jointly by Plantlife and Post. Well, the second instalment … Continue reading →

You may remember our earlier post on this blog – which included a link to a survey. We are pleased to say that we had a good response to the survey and the results were incorporated into the planning for … Continue reading →

Meadows Group members attending the talk in January by Phil “The Bugman” Ward will remember, during the discussion in the Q&A afterwards, mention of some research that was done in the Elan Valley into various aspects of Meadow Management.  While … Continue reading →