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As mentioned in a previous post (https://carmarthenshiremeadows.com/2019/04/11/visits-to-cmg-members-fields/) we’d like to encourage Meadows Group members to visit each other’s fields to exchange knowledge and experience as well as having a nice walk in a meadow. So Andrew and Helen Martin will … Continue reading
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A wonderful post from Richard Smith: It’s not often that a long-threatened and declining species turns up in 73 additional fields in a county, even one the size of Carmarthenshire. That’s what happened in 2018 and that’s just the part … Continue reading
A post from Andrew: Our two fields (which are managed as meadows) are adjacent but separated by a treeline. The treeline comprises 6 large oaks and some hawthorn, willow, blackthorn, holly and hazel with bramble undergrowth. The canopy of the oaks is … Continue reading
Andrew Martin (our Chairman) gave a talk recently to the Dyfed Smallholders’ Association on the Meadows Group. After the talk, a discussion on various aspects of grassland management threw up two problems some of the smallholders were having. Andrew couldn’t … Continue reading
A post from our Chairman Andrew: Some of us have a difficult relationship with rushes, with soft rush (Juncus effusus) being a particular problem in some fields when it can become almost a monoculture of hard clumps. It’s also one … Continue reading
In the early days of the Meadows Group, we arranged to visit not only nature reserves belonging to/managed by various conservation organisations but also fields belonging to the new group’s individual members. This was a very useful thing to do, and … Continue reading
Our good friend Dr Deborah Sazer is running a range of courses this year – Gower and Swansea and at Denmark Farm near Lampeter. They are not in Carmarthenshire – but if you are prepared to cross the county borders they look excellent.
There will also be a Butterfly day at Carmel – in Carmarthenshire at a date to be fixed – when I have more details I will post them.
Please email ecology.sazer@gmail.com to book up. Please see Facebook @wildgower – or if the Denmark Farm events are what you are interested in go to http://www.denmarkfarm.org.uk/events/ for more details.
As those attending the Spring Meeting on 23 March will remember, Richard Pryce (with Kath Pryce the County Recorders) asked for us to send in records. I said that I would remind everyone of this request (and tell those who … Continue reading
This may be of interest to our members: Last November, S4C showed a film called “Yr Afon Dywyll – Taith yr Afon Tywi” – or “The Dark River – The Journey of the River Tywi“. The film was made over … Continue reading
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