Plantlife’s campaign to stop indiscriminate mowing of roadside verges by councils, destroying valuable wildflowers and habitat, has received national publicity today (BBC web site and Plantlife’s press release) Road verges need management, but Plantlife say that councils are mowing verges in their care, at the height of the flowering season, too often and leaving the… Read More Publicity for Plantlife’s Road Verges Campaign

An update to a message from MMG members John & Sandra Lee : Should you be interested, we have Dexter beef maturing now and available for delivery on 24th November Grass only fed and locally butchered ELMCROFT DEXTERS Naturally Reared Pedigree Dexter Beef Grass Fed to produce Beef of the Finest Quality From this Traditional… Read More Naturally Reared Pedigree Dexter Beef

Wiggly Wigglers and The English Garden magazine have invited anyone that gardens with wildlife in mind to contribute a blog for their Green & Gorgeous Garden competition.  Glynis Laws, an MMG committee member, has been writing about her garden and wildflower meadow and several of the other bloggers also have wildflower meadows or mini-meadows. You can follow… Read More Gardening for Wildlife

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.