The Friends of Monmouth Cemetery will be holding their annual hay day at 10am on Friday 20th July. Help is needed to rake up the hay over part of the cemetery, which is being managed as a hay meadow. The wild plants in the meadow area are left to grow, flower, and seed during the… Read More Help Make Hay with the Friends of Monmouth Cemetery
Saturday 23rd June, 10am to 4pm. Organised in association with Gwent Wildlife Trust and South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre (SEWBReC) Tymawr Convent at Lydart (near Trellech) encompasses around 25 ha of land and an area of neutral grassland (MG5) has been designated as a Wildlife Site/Site of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC). The convent… Read More Biodiversity Blitz at Tymawr Convent, Saturday 23 June
Our first open day of the season was on Sunday 3rd June at Richard Cornock’s smallholding near Portskewett and there will be another chance to see Richard’s meadow on 15 July. Visits can be made between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Next Sunday, 10th June, is a chance to visit Chris Parsons’… Read More Join us at our Meadows Open Days in June and July
A message from Alison Willott, Chair of the Monmouth branch of GWT Our gardens at Coed Cefn will be open from 2-6p.m. on Sunday May 20th in aid of the Gwent Wildlife Trust. We are about 5 minutes’ drive from the A40 at Raglan, and it will be signed from the Raglan roundabout. Parking will… Read More Coed Cefn Open Garden Sunday 20th May
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 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
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