Plantlife are hosting this webinar as part of their Meadow Makers Project. Its full title is Grassland Carbon: restoration, creation and management practices that affect carbon sequestration in grasslands. There will be two presentations from specialists who will share the … Continue reading →

The two speakers from last night’s meeting would like to make their email addresses available to interested landowners who might want them to go and take a look at their potential floodplain meadow sites.  They are: Leila Thornton: leila.thornton@naturalresourceswales.gov.ukCaroline O’Rourke: caroline.orourke@open.ac.uk and … Continue reading →

Our next CMG meeting is Thursday 10th February at 7:30pm.  We’ll be hearing about, and discussing, floodplain meadows, and we’re very fortunate to have Leila Thornton from Natural Resources Wales as our guest speaker.  Floodplain meadows generate a sustainable and … Continue reading →

Bumblebee Conservation Trust will be running a range of training activities throughout Wales and online. Keep an eye out for details https://www.bumblebeeconservation.org/events-calendar/?utm_source=Skills+for+Bees%3A+Cymru+project&utm_campaign=0a2a03dbdb-General+e-news+-+GDPR+list_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5796f2678e-0a2a03dbdb-30144524 Bruce Langridge is interviewing people connected with the National Botanic Gardens of Wales. On 13 January he chatted … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →