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Our aims are to conserve and restore flower rich grasslands in Monmouthshire by enabling members to manage their own fields and gardens effectively  

Who are we and what do we do  

 The group was formed in Spring 2003, and within 18 months we had more than 60 members with a total of 300 acres of grassland sites ranging from less than a quarter of an acre to well over 30 acres.  Many members wish to restore flowering hay meadows, or create wild areas in their gardens. 
We have Charitable Status and we now have more than 80 members with almost 500 acres of grassland scattered over Monmouthshire but with a concentration on the Trellech Plateau.  

We give individual botanical training and prepare documentation on all our members’ sites.  We work closely with other conservation agencies such as the Countryside Council for Wales, Gwent Wildlife Trust and the Wye Valley AONB, by whom we are grant assisted.  

Together with our neighbouring conservation group across the Wye, The Parish Grasslands Group in Gloucestershire, we have been awarded Heritage Lottery funding for the purchase of a tractor and peripheral equipment to help us with this work.
 
How do we help our members to manage their meadows?
 
We begin by making a preliminary survey of members’ meadows.  We provide training in species identification and meadow management to members.  We work with our members to prepare and implement management plans that will meet their needs, whether they be recreational, agricultural or economic.  We are fortunate in having two ecologists on our committee and prepare scientific records of sites of particular biological interest
 
 
 
 

  

  

 

  
 
 

 

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