The Meadow Makers' Network Forum

We are pleased to publish the list of meadows opening this year for the Moor Meadows Open Meadows programme. Spring is rolling along and the first meadow opens in just 3 weeks, on 18 May. The others follow thick and fast. Please do take a look at the programme and put some of these in your diary. Th...

We are pleased to announce our Open Meadows programme for this year. A full description of the meadows that are opening can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4cwwwutu. The meadows, along with those details, are also on a map here: https://tinyurl.com/yc8kyunv To see details of each site on the map,...

We are pleased to announce the Open Meadows programme for this year in East Devon. A full description of the meadows that are opening can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4cwwwutu. The meadows, along with those details, are also on a map here: https://tinyurl.com/yc8kyunv . To see details of each ...

The National Meadow Groups Conference 2024 took place in Norbury, Shropshire on Friday 15 November. It was organised and hosted by Marches Meadow Group, Middle Marches Community Land Trust and the Shropshire Hills National Landscape. It was a busy day with a full schedule of presentations and, in th...

To everyone who has been on the waiting list for this event: I've just been informed that more tickets have been released so you should be able to book now. Also, there is an answer to Gavin's friend's question, which was, "Does registering for an SBI number have any tax, business rate or insur...

Further to my comment above, here is the formal reply I have now received from Business Information Point, who will be delivering the talk: "That [the eligibility statement] is a legacy statement from when the FFR project, which is providing your workshop, was set up: those terms and conditions...

Hi Paul, I've just spoken to the people who will be delivering this talk. it was agreed that the information on the Eventbrite page is somewhat confusing and contradictory so please don't worry about the eligibility statement there. The purpose of the talk is to help us all understand what steps hav...

This is a reminder about the online workshop on Monday 13 November at 19:00 on funding for species-rich grassland management provided under the Sustainable Farming Initiative (SFI). There is no longer a minimum acreage requirement for qualifying for funding, so small land holdings or even gardens ca...

Here's a date for your summer diaries. We will be holding a Plant ID event on Sunday 4 August led by Rebecca Chance, a Natural England plant surveyor. This event will be kindly hosted by Julian Pady at Goren Farm, Stockland. Goren offers mostly generalised grassland and we should be able to see/lear...

The new East Devon Meadows Group is now firmly established and we're enjoying our first Open Meadows programme. The details are here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-qrcXBDQzG2yN3xyPHwOPD0EwwwQuqQQ85rz-fCHoBo/edit?usp=sharing and on a map here https://tinyurl.com/s294zfv5 . We have our first 'Le...