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The first ever National Meadows day took place in 2015, designed to promote awareness of wildflower meadows. 2016 saw many more events across the country including 2 in Carmarthenshire, which are summarised below. Many thanks to Andrew Martin for the … Continue reading
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Wednesday June 29th saw a group of hardy meadow enthusiasts gather at Newton House for a “summer social”, kindly organised by Isabel Macho, and Helen Bradley of Plantlife. Beginning with a couple of talks on the top floor of the … Continue reading
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Very many thanks to Andrew Martin for the report below on the visit to the Carmarthenshire Coronations Meadow at Cae Blaen Dyffryn, on June 19th: _________________________ On 19th June we attended the event organised by Plantlife at Cae Blaen Dyffryn, … Continue reading
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How are your favourite meadows looking now? It seems that over the last fortnight, our meadows are changing almost daily, both in terms of height of growth, what’s flowering, and also even the first hints of increased insect meadow activity, … Continue reading
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Like London buses, no posts for a while, then 2 in 2 days! Many thanks to Andrew and Helen Martin for the very interesting feedback, and images below, about their experiences of using imported Yellow Rattle seed as a means … Continue reading
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After a very wet mild winter, and later start to spring, at last our upland meadows seem to be growing well. I’ve been kindly sent a link to a hay making camp in Transylvania, by Gwyn Jones of European Forum on … Continue reading
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Thanks to Isabel for some more information about conservation grazing opportunities with ponies from Pont: PONT have access to at least 80 semi-feral pony mares, mainly Section A/ B types from the Gower. Obviously these can be split up into … Continue reading
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Grazing Animal project – PONT Thanks to Isabel for the following information, and also via her some great pictures to accompany the post, (forwarded by Gwyn Jones, of the European Forum on Nature Conservation and Pastoralism) and taken by Sidsel Christoffersen of Norway, … Continue reading
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Thanks to Isabel for sending me this information, which comes from Hannah Shaw of the Freshwater HabitatsTrust : The Freshwater Habitats Trust are undertaking a new project this year where they would like as many people as possible to participate … Continue reading
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What’s in a name? Farm, holding and individual field names Somebody told me that there had been a television programme earlier in 2015, on S4C, called ‘Caeau Cymru’ I believe ,which investigated the origins of names given to Welsh fields, … Continue reading
Carmarthenshire Meadows Group - Grŵp Dolydd Sir Gaerfyrddin 