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
Gardens in the Wild is an annual garden festival and this year will be held at Whitfield Estate, Herefordshire HR2 0BA on 24/25 June. There will be stalls, events, guided walks, delicious food and talks from a terrific line up of garden experts including Noel Kingsbury and Caroline Hanks who will share their expertise on… Read More Gardens in the Wild, 24/25 June
Usk Civic Society is organising a Biodiversity Day to raise funds for the Alfred Russel Wallace Memorial. The event starts at 12 noon at Llanllywel House. There will be walks in the wildflower meadow, the woodland and hillside. Bring a picnic, stout shoes and anorak. Tea, coffee, water and soft drinks will be available. There… Read More Biodiversity Day at Llanllywel (Usk) Sunday 7 May
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
Wednesday 26th April, 7pm at Llanishen Village Hall Our Annual General Meeting and Spring Get-together is a great opportunity to meet fellow meadow enthusiasts and catch up on MMG activities. This year our speaker is Dr George Peterken, well known ecologist, author of several books including Wye Valley (in the Collins New Naturalist series) and… Read More Spring 2017 AGM and Get-together
(Links to external sites open in new windows or tabs) February 2019 Sunday 3rd: Local Wildlife Site Owners Day at Llanishen Village Hall, organised by Gwent Wildlife Trust, 9.30am to 1pm. Details here Thursday 7th: Work party at Trellech Wet Meadow, from 9.45am, to prepare the site before hedge planting on 14th March March 2019 Thursday 14th: Hedge Planting… Read More Events Diary
All Monmouthshire Meadows Group members are invited to attend the morning for owners of Local Wildlife Sites at Llanishen Village Hall on Sunday 22 January 2017, 9.30am to 1pm. There will be talks on Grassland Fungi, Amazing Molluscs of the Gwent Living Landscapes, Wye Valley Woodlands, Pine Marten Reintroduction Feasibility, and Orchard Conservation as well as… Read More Local Wildlife Site Landowner Morning: 22 January
