All MMG members are invited to Gwent Wildlife Trust’s Local Wildlife Site Landowner Morning on Sunday 3rd February 2019, from 9.30am to 1pm. This will be a morning of talks and informal wildlife discussion at Llanishen Village Hall, Monmouthshire (directions below). There is a great line-up of speakers on a wide range of interesting topics… Read More Local Wildlife Sites Landowners Day: 3 February 2019
Our Autumn newsletter for 2018 is available to download here. As well as our own news and upcoming events, it includes: Is Rye-grass Always Greener: News of research published by Save our Magnificent Meadows into the potential benefits to cattle and humans of grazing farm animals on species-rich grassland Gwent Fungus Group Roger Ruston’s Encounters with Long-horned… Read More Autumn Newsletter 2018
This Autumn our meeting and social supper is at Abergavenny Community Centre, 7pm start. There will be a review of activities, followed by our main speaker Ruaridh MacDonald, owner of Blaentrothy Meadows, and then a buffet supper and social, with time to get to know fellow meadows enthusiasts. Blaentrothy meadows are part of the wonderful… Read More Our Autumn Social: Tuesday 16th October 2018
Instead of holding a one-day event, this year we are planning afternoon and evening Open Meadows, to which MMG members and supporters, their family and friends are invited. As always, we are very grateful to our hosts who allow us to come on to their land to enjoy the results of their hard work. The first… Read More 2018 Open Meadows
Wednesday 25th April, 7pm at Llanishen Village Hall Our Annual General Meeting and Spring Social is once again at Llanishen, and will be the usual great opportunity to meet fellow meadow enthusiasts and catch up on MMG activities. This year our speaker is Colin Cheesman, Programme Director of Plantlife Cymru, the Welsh section of the… Read More Spring 2018 AGM and Social
Our latest newsletter is available to download here. It includes our latest news, upcoming events and articles including: An update from our chair, Steph Tyler, on recent activities Details of our new book Grassland Fungi: A Field Guide A school visit to Trellech Wet Meadow An article by bee recorder Roger Ruston on bees in Monmouthshire’s meadows… Read More Autumn 2017 Newsletter
Now available from NHBS Published in October 2017 by Monmouthshire Meadows Group and compiled by Elsa Wood and Jon Dunkelman, this field guide is the result of 2½ years surveying grassland sites in the Lower Wye Valley. Elsa and Jon were accompanied by photographers Malcolm Schuyl and Keith Moseley and assisted by production editor Marilyn… Read More Grassland Fungi: A Field Guide
This year’s Autumn Social will be at the Centenary Hall in Usk on Tuesday 31st October, starting at 7pm. The evening will feature a talk from Dr Rupert Perkins of Cardiff University on meadow butterflies, followed by a buffet supper. Dr Perkins is a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University’s School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, and… Read More Autumn Get-together, Tuesday 31 October
This year we are working with Gwent Wildlife Trust to give people the opportunity to walk around some of the county’s most beautiful meadows and to get a feel for how the Monmouthshire landscape would have looked before intensive farming methods were adopted. Download the leaflet Four meadows are open on Sunday 18th June where… Read More Monmouthshire Open Meadows 18 June 2017
Our latest newsletter is available to download here. It includes our latest news, upcoming events and articles including: An update from our chairman, Steph Tyler, on recent activities News about our latest venture at Wet Meadow in Trellech The Long Forest Project GWT’s Wye Woods Conservation Project Open Meadows Day 2017 Monmouth Bee Festival Obituary and… Read More Spring 2017 Newsletter
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