Following our “orchard” meeting, a member has offered us the chance to take cuttings for grafting from his Arthur Turner cooking apple tree. He says the flavour is equal to that of Bramley apples, and it produces apples from between Read More
On 14 September 2006 The Hudnalls, an area of dense woodland, tumbledown remains of squatter cottages and old drystone walls in the heart of the Lower Wye Valley Gorge was dedicated as the latest National Nature Reserve.
Time to get creative – here are the details for our recipe competition: Competition for the best-tasting recipe, with the primary ingredient(s) being foraged or ‘wild’ food (all secondary ingredients may come from the store-cupboard). You will be judged on Read More
It wasn’t so much scenes on the television drama Poldark of a bare-chested hero in action that aroused the PGP’s interest in scything. More the visit to our meeting last October of Simon Fairlie, who has done more than anyone Read More
The sun shone for us on 4 June, the wildflowers bloomed and you came to Open Fields, when eight meadow sites were open to the public. On the day we measured success with coffee spoons, not to mention biscuits, Welshcakes Read More
Foragers are a singular breed, they are saints and sinners both. For those concerned by the disconnect between what we eat and where it comes from, by factory farming, £2 chickens and sluicing the planet in pesticides, then foraging is Read More
Blades were out at the Mackenzie Hall on Saturday 17th October, as were the rakes and the shovels, as the Parish Grasslands Project took on the topic of hand tools for its autumn meeting. We picked our way between assorted Read More
Jon Dunkelman, a member of the Monmouthshire Meadows Group, is compiling a field guide to grasslands fungi of the lower Wye Valley. Local mycologist Elsa Wood is providing the fungi expertise and a couple of photographers have been recruited to Read More
Once again members of the Parish Grasslands Project made arrangements for children from the St Briavels Play Group and St Briavels School to visit and see the variety of wild flowers growing at Hollyside Farm and to use sweep nets Read More
