Each year SEWBReC (South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre) run a series of Species Identification Training Workshops. The aim is to stimulate interest in recording species, and to encourage more volunteers to generate biological records. This year’s workshops are: Wednesday 3rd July – Introduction to Grasses Saturday 7th September – Woodlice Saturday 28th September –… Read More SEWBReC Training Courses
On Sunday 16th June meadows will be open around Trellech. Visits can be made between 11am and 4pm. Directions for each site are given below the map. For meadows open on 9th June click here. New Grove Farm and New Grove Meadows NP25 4AF GWT site grid reference SO 501 066 New Grove Farm is… Read More 2013 Open Day Meadows: 16th June
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust are holding an event on : 7th June, 10am to 4pm at Newport Wetlands The day will include a number of talks and a workshop on conserving bumblebee habitats in Wales, including meadow management, conservation grazing, reen and ditch management, and landscape scale conservation projects. Speakers include MMG Chairman Steph Tyler, Rebecca… Read More Bumblebee Conservation Event: Friday 7th June
To: Members of Monmouthshire Meadows Group The Committee of the Monmouthshire Meadows Group invites MMG members to join them at a party to launch ‘Wildflower Meadows in Monmouthshire: Ten years of conserving and restoring flower-rich grasslands’, a book compiled by Meadows Group members to celebrate 10 years of successful meadow making. The party will be… Read More Party Invitation! Sunday 9th June
On Sunday 9th June our open meadows are all in the Shirenewton area. Visits can be made between 11am and 4pm. Directions for each site are given below the map. For meadows open on 16th June click here. Northridge House Usk Road, Shirenewton NP16 6RZ Grid reference ST 467 953 Map This meadow and woodland plantation… Read More Open Day Meadows: Sunday 9th June
Everyone who attended our Spring meeting on 11th April was impressed with Rob Bacon’s presentation on Stag Beetles (Lucanus cervus) and how Natural Resources Wales* hopes to get a better understanding of their distribution across Monmouthshire by involving people like us in recording sightings. Rob demonstrated how to make a trap to capture (temporarily of course)… Read More Stag Beetle Recording
This year we are holding open days over two weekends, on Sunday 9th June and Sunday 16th June. On Sunday 9th June MMG members in the Shirenewton area will be opening their meadows for visitors, and in the evening we shall be holding a get together to celebrate our 10th anniversary and mark the launch… Read More Meadow Open Days June 2013
This year’s Spring get-together, incorporating our AGM, will be held at The Bridges Community Centre in Monmouth on Thursday 11th April, starting at 7pm. Everyone is welcome and we would love to see you all there, to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary. We’ll get through the business quickly then our chairman Stephanie Tyler will give… Read More Join us at our Spring Meeting, 11th April 2013
Thursday April 18th at St. Michael’s Centre, Abergavenny 6.45-9.45pm Abergavenny and Crickhowell Friends of the Earth are promoting The Bee Cause campaign with an open meeting featuring a number of speakers. Entry is free. Find out all about bees and other pollinators. Learn about their potentially catastrophic decline. Look at ways of supporting pollinators in our gardens.… Read More The Plight of the Humble Bee – Public Meeting
Mackenzie Hall, Brockweir at 7.15 pm Thursday 7th March 2013 The Parish Grasslands Project AGM and spring meeting on 7th March, focusses on local birds – species, habitats and making your own observations. The evening features illustrated talks from MMG chairman Stephanie Tyler on local birds of rivers, farms and woods, and from Sarah Sawyer… Read More An Evening of Local Birds with the Parish Grasslands Project
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