PONT, the Welsh organisation promoting grazing for the benefit of wildlife, has set up a Hay Exchange on their website. The aim is to help people who need or want hay or farmyard manure to get in touch with each other. This will support people who are creating and managing traditional hay meadows by finding an outlet… Read More Hay & Manure Exchange: PONT’s New Project
UPDATE: This relates to our 2016 Open Meadows Day. This year our Open Meadows Day will be a celebration of our success in purchasing Kingcoed Meadows plus a special viewing of Joanna Kerr’s garden and meadow at Glebe House, Llanfair Kilgeddin. We are holding our events on National Meadows Day, Saturday 2nd July, and we are collaborating… Read More Open Meadows on National Meadows Day 2nd July 2016
Retiring and New Committee Members At April’s AGM we said thank you to five retiring committee members who have all contributed a huge amount to MMG’s work over the last few years. Glynis Law actually left the committee a few months ago, but continues to be an active member of the group. Martin Fenn-Smith and… Read More Committee Changes at MMG
Our Spring Newsletter is now available to download here. This issue includes: An update on our newly purchased meadows at Kingcoed and plans for activities at the site An update from our chairman, Steph Tyler, on recent activities An exciting project at the National Botanic Garden of Wales to rescue Monmouthshire’s Meadow Clary Habitat Aid, suppliers of wildflower seed… Read More Spring 2016 Newsletter
UPDATE Many thanks to everyone who came along to our AGM on 14th April. New committee members were elected, and we said goodbye to some of our retiring committee. More details will be posted on our Committee page. Our Spring Meeting on Thursday 14 April will again be held at Bridges Community Centre, in Monmouth. (It is helpful to… Read More 2016 Spring Get-together and AGM
After over a year of fund raising we are absolutely delighted to announce that we have reached our main target of £96,000 to buy the two traditional flower-rich meadows at Kingcoed. We had secured grants from various trusts including the Banister Trust, Waterloo Foundation, Alan Evans Memorial Trust, Foyle Foundation, New Grove Trust, Gwent Wildlife… Read More Kingcoed Meadows: All Systems Go!
Our first event of 2016 will be a clearing up task force on Four Acres meadow in Maryland, The Narth, on Sunday 31st January, from 10.30am to about 12.30pm. This is the part of Ida Dunn’s property which is being given to Monmouthshire Meadows Group by her beneficiaries, and many of you will have visited on… Read More Four Acres Meadow: Work Party 31st January
Our latest newsletter is available to download here as a pdf (about 3Mb): MMG Newsletter Autumn 2015 Contents of this issue include: An update on our appeal to purchase Kingcoed Meadows Information about our Contractors List Meadow restoration by Green Hay Strewing, a demonstration attended by Sheelagh Kerry and Martin Fenn-Smith A report from Ray… Read More Our Autumn Newsletter
Our Autumn meeting this year will be in Usk at the Centenary Hall, on Tuesday 20th October, with very special guest speaker Dr Rosie Plummer, Director of the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Rosie became director in 2010, ten years after the opening of the Garden and research centre. It’s now the most visited garden in Wales, with… Read More Autumn Meeting Tuesday 20 October 2015
The inaugural meeting of Carmarthenshire Meadows Group was held in March 2015, as reported in our Spring newsletter, and over the summer they held a series of meadows visits. They have recently launched their web site http://www.carmarthenshiremeadows.com. Their next event is a Meadow Management Training Day on Saturday 22nd August at Brynare, Harford (10.30am to 4pm)… Read More Carmarthenshire Meadows Group
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