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

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

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

Gwent Wildlife Trust have fully funded grants of up to £2,000 available for capital works that help enhance and restore Local Wildlife Sites in Monmouthshire.  This is part of their Natural Assets Project, which aims to help identify and support the care of some of the best places for wildlife in Monmouthshire.  So if you are… Read More Grants Available for Local Wildlife Sites

Our latest newsletter has just been published.  Features include Founder member Ida Dunn Support for the Plantlife Road Verge Campaign and what you can do to help The sad demise of the Grasslands Trust The Million Ponds project Reports of our events over the summer and our autumn get-together as well as editorial from our… Read More MMG Autumn Newsletter

We have helped Rogiet Community Council and Tidy Towns with the management of the Rogiet Countryside Park in Rogiet near Caldicott (over the railway line at Severn Tunnels Junction and just to the right). The park hosts a  number of rare and unusual plants in the meadow area. There will be work tasks there on… Read More Work Tasks at Rogiet Countryside Park