Hudnalls National Nature Reserve
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.
Wild Food Recipe Competition
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
Scythe course
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
Open Fields
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
Fungi and foraging
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
Give us the Tools – Working the land by hand
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
Grasslands Fungi – Field Guide
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
Flower hunt at Hollyside Farm
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
Gadr Farm visit
The evening of 15 May saw a 16 strong group of Grasslanders pay a visit to Gadr Farm, near Trelleck, home to Mr Alan Morgan and his family. The farm is a 160 acre holding of traditional livestock rearing pasture, Read More