MMG member Marion Stainton is opening her garden in Pontrilas, Herefordshire on Sunday 10th June and Sunday 16th September (part of the NGS Garden Open Days scheme which benefits a range of charities). The garden is open 2 – 5.30pm, entry is £3.50 (children under 16 free) The part-walled enclosed vegetable garden and greenhouse has… Read More Garden Open Days at ‘The Brooks’
Our Spring Newsletter features Our chairman Trevor Evans MBE Threatened Species in Monmouthshire Spotlight on Green-veined Orchids Shrill Carder Bee Visit to see Oxford Floodplain Meadows Nurturing Monmouthshire’s Natural Assets – Gwent Wildlife Trust’s latest project ‘Local Wildlife Sites’ Focus on member Glynis Laws, Far Barn at St Maughans Wild daffodils at risk from hybridization… Read More MMG Spring Newsletter
11am to 4pm at Parc Bryn Bach, Tredegar Celebrate Wales Biodiversity Week at this free family event organised by the Blaenau Gwent Biodiversity Partnership. Meet lots of wild animals from Otters and Owls to Bats, Amphibians and Reptiles.
10am – 3pm An event being organised by the Forgotten Landscapes Partnership at the Blaenavon World Heritage Site, part of the celebrations of the 200th birthday of the canal. This is a free event open to anyone interested in ecological recording Suitable for beginners as well as experienced wildlife recorders Children accompanied by an adult… Read More Biodiversity Blitz Day at the Monmouth-Brecon Canal on 8th June
In 2011 a grant from Environment Wales enabled Monmouthshire Meadows Group volunteers to visit more sites than would otherwise have been possible, and to resurvey many sites previously visited between 2003 and 2006 in order to assess the effectiveness of management measures. The report of these visits has been completed and is available here to… Read More Biodiversity Report on Members’ Grasslands
Our AGM took place on 29th March and we’ll publish more about it soon. In the meantime the Chairman’s report is here in pdf format.
In 2012 rather than have four or five sites ‘open’ on the same day we have organised a number of ‘open days’ through June and July so that we will not be rained off on them all! Visits can be made between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Sunday 6 May: Meet at… Read More Meadow Open Days and Training Events 2012
Monmouthshire’s Environment Partnership is organising a workshop and meeting for voluntary groups involved in managing local green spaces in Monmouthshire. The workshop will bring together groups of volunteers and supporting agencies to share experience of their activities, learn from one another and identify any ways in which the Environment Partnership Board and its partners can… Read More Workshop for Volunteers Working on Open Green Spaces – 24 March 2012
The Flora locale training programme is created for people involved in the design, management and restoration of wild plants and landscapes for biodiversity, whether on a farm, smallholding, village green, city park or garden. Each event is led by an individual with practical experience and provides an informal opportunity for participants to learn from an… Read More Flora locale Training Programme
We would like to invite you to our Spring Get-together and 9th AGM, Thursday, 29th March at 7.00pm at the Monmouth Priory We hope to get through the business part of the meeting quickly and this will be followed by a talk by Paul Toynton: Saving our grasslands for wildlife and people; the work of… Read More Join us at our Spring Get-together on 29th March
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