Wild bees will be the subject of a talk hosted by the Parish Grasslands Project at 2.30pm onSaturday 25 October at the Mackenzie Hall. The speaker will be Ciaran Clark, project managerfor the Monmouth-based international charity Bees for Development. Since Read More
Gill Stott (thanks to Andy Stott for comments) A group of about 15 met at Tidenham Chase car park on Tuesday evening to join a walk around Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust managed land led by warden Kevin Caster. Kevin is reserves Read More
On Sunday 15th June the PGP is hosting Dean Meadows Group to visit three of our meadow sites. We hope you will visit all of the sites. However, it is possible to visit some rather than all of them, but please observe the timings Read More
On Tuesday 1st July we will meet at 7pm at the Tidenham Chase car park on the B4228 https://maps.app.goo.gl/WLvF3faQXMJeipVG7 Kevin Caster from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust will take us on a tour of the trust’s three neighbouring reserves: Poors Allotment, Ridley Bottom, and Read More
The final session for 2025 was an evening one, on May Day, Thursday the 1st, at Cutt’s Orchard, Brockweir. With very varied habitats, from natural woodland by the stream to the steep-sided grassland and finally the boggy section further up Read More
The next Signs of Spring walk will take place on Thursday 1st May 2025 led by Gemma Bode. All welcome. We will meet at the village shop carpark at 7 p.m. According to the forecast it should be a glorious Read More
We want your help to produce a calendar for 2026 which will celebrate and inspire action for our local biodiversity. We are fortunate to live in an area where biodiversity has not suffered as much as elsewhere and we have Read More
We launched Parish Grasslands Climate Action in February 2020 and it seemed that we had got off to a great start, drawing in a whole new raft of members of the local community. Within weeks the first lockdown of the Read More
Isabella Tree’s book Wilding was published in 2018 and quickly became a best-seller. It tells how she and partner Charlie Burrell transformed their 3,500 acre estate in the Sussex Weald from a heavily subsidy-dependent arable farm into a haven for Read More
If you would like to know more about deer and boar in the Forest of Dean, come to our autumn meeting at the Mackenzie Hall on Saturday 5 October at 2.30pm. The speaker is Ian Harvey, Forestry England’s wildlife manager Read More