Our next public meeting will be held at the Mackenzie Hall, Brockweir, at 7.30 pm on Thursday 21 March, 2024. This will include our annual general meeting. We are still working on the evening’s main content. Full details will appear Read More
We have two fascinating talks lined up for the PGP autumn meeting at 2.30pm on Saturday October 22 at the Mackenzie Hall. Both speakers are members of the local community: Andy Stott will give us a preview of the UN Read More
We are hosting a talk by one of the country’s leading bee experts at the Savoy Theatre, Monmouth on Thursday September 22. Dave Goulson is a professor of biology at Sussex University, where he specialises in bee ecology. He is Read More
Last year we held a series of Zoom meetings examining the emerging signs that spring was finally happening: awakenings in the worlds of plants, insects, birds and mammals. In 2022 we will do it again, except that this time we’ll Read More
We plan to re-launch Parish Grasslands Climate Action sometime in early summer, following the massive interruption caused by Covid. In the meantime members have been discussing various ideas about how the community can tackle various climate change issues. We all Read More
Our 2022 annual general meeting takes place at the Mackenzie Hall on Thursday 31 March at 7.30pm. After the formal business we have two excellent talks lined up, from local speakers bringing varied perspectives on climate change. Matt Dunwell is Read More
The year was not without its frustrations, to put it mildly, but we were able to end on a high note. December’s online talk by Brigit Strawbridge Howard, held in collaboration with Dean Forest Beekeepers, proved exceptionally popular with members, Read More
We finally held our annual general meeting online about six months after the original date chosen. Before any of us were aware of the words Coronavirus and Covid-19, we had planned to have it in the Mackenzie Hall on a Read More
It has been a very frustrating year so far for many of us, and at the Parish Grasslands Project that frustration is felt as keenly as elsewhere. No sooner had we launched our Climate Action initiative in February, and the Read More
This month we are able to report some good news – sadly a commodity in poor supply currently. A substantial article by George Peterken and Elsa Wood about the wild flora survey of our two parishes has just been published Read More