Floodplain Meadows Partnership
@floodplainmead.bsky.social
The Floodplain Meadows Partnership is an innovative project focusing on research, management, promotion and restoration of these special meadows in England and Wales 🌱
https://linktr.ee/floodplainmead
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Check out our new paper on the newly defined oceanic wet grasslands of Scotland in the latest issue of British and Irish Botany 👀👀 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social
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February 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Check out our new paper on the newly defined oceanic wet grasslands of Scotland in the latest issue of British and Irish Botany 👀👀 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social
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'Art and visual culture has a huge role to play in communicating information about the environmental crisis' youtu.be/TXdoHdZRXnU?...
OU Research & Societal Impact Showcase 2023: Sam Shaw - Art and Ecology Project
YouTube video by The Open University
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February 4, 2026 at 3:17 PM
'Art and visual culture has a huge role to play in communicating information about the environmental crisis' youtu.be/TXdoHdZRXnU?...
Reposted by Floodplain Meadows Partnership
Our Biological Flora on Wood Crane's-bill is out in @journalofecology.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A team effort w/ @ruthsk.bsky.social @sandravarga.bsky.social @spp-rich.bsky.social @duncanwestbury.bsky.social, irina Tatarenko & artist Lucy Hulmes on pen and ink.
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum*
Geranium sylvaticum is a perennial forb of upland grasslands, woodlands and riverbanks in northern Britain, with scattered native occurrences also in Wales, central England and Northern Ireland. It h...
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February 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Our Biological Flora on Wood Crane's-bill is out in @journalofecology.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A team effort w/ @ruthsk.bsky.social @sandravarga.bsky.social @spp-rich.bsky.social @duncanwestbury.bsky.social, irina Tatarenko & artist Lucy Hulmes on pen and ink.
Check out this new @journalofecology.bsky.social paper on Geranium sylvaticum. Produced by @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social, @naturalengland.bsky.social, North Pennines AONB Partnership, University of Lincoln and Royal Agricultural University
Read for free here: tinyurl.com/4vrn979j
Read for free here: tinyurl.com/4vrn979j
Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum*
Geranium sylvaticum is a perennial forb of upland grasslands, woodlands and riverbanks in northern Britain, with scattered native occurrences also in Wales, central England and Northern Ireland. It h...
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February 3, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Check out this new @journalofecology.bsky.social paper on Geranium sylvaticum. Produced by @openuniversity.bsky.social, @ukceh.bsky.social, @naturalengland.bsky.social, North Pennines AONB Partnership, University of Lincoln and Royal Agricultural University
Read for free here: tinyurl.com/4vrn979j
Read for free here: tinyurl.com/4vrn979j
This #WorldWetlandsDay, let’s celebrate floodplain meadows, pieces of living history woven into our culture.
Managed communally for centuries, they supported shared livelihoods, local traditions and rich biodiversity.
Find out more about these fascinating landscapes here: tinyurl.com/2s4byw74
Managed communally for centuries, they supported shared livelihoods, local traditions and rich biodiversity.
Find out more about these fascinating landscapes here: tinyurl.com/2s4byw74
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 AM
This #WorldWetlandsDay, let’s celebrate floodplain meadows, pieces of living history woven into our culture.
Managed communally for centuries, they supported shared livelihoods, local traditions and rich biodiversity.
Find out more about these fascinating landscapes here: tinyurl.com/2s4byw74
Managed communally for centuries, they supported shared livelihoods, local traditions and rich biodiversity.
Find out more about these fascinating landscapes here: tinyurl.com/2s4byw74
Herefordshire Meadows Newsletter January 2025
Herefordshire Meadows Newsletter January 2025
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January 29, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Check out this fantastic online art exhibtion by @artandecology.bsky.social showing how art can help us understand and conserve our wonderful floodplain medows.
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How can art save meadows? | Art UK
Discover artworks, explore venues and meet artists. Art UK is the online home for every public collection in the UK, featuring over 750,000 artworks by over 70,000 artists.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Check out this fantastic online art exhibtion by @artandecology.bsky.social showing how art can help us understand and conserve our wonderful floodplain medows.
artuk.org/discover/cur...
artuk.org/discover/cur...
Some lovely events coming up at the wonderful Mottey Meadows, do go along if you can. Info and booking links below.
Saturday 18 April: Fritillary walk: tinyurl.com/uxvc4tfu
Saturday 27 June: Summer Walk tinyurl.com/3rdumwdh
Thursday 2 July: Summer Evening walk tinyurl.com/46cus9xw
Saturday 18 April: Fritillary walk: tinyurl.com/uxvc4tfu
Saturday 27 June: Summer Walk tinyurl.com/3rdumwdh
Thursday 2 July: Summer Evening walk tinyurl.com/46cus9xw
January 22, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Some lovely events coming up at the wonderful Mottey Meadows, do go along if you can. Info and booking links below.
Saturday 18 April: Fritillary walk: tinyurl.com/uxvc4tfu
Saturday 27 June: Summer Walk tinyurl.com/3rdumwdh
Thursday 2 July: Summer Evening walk tinyurl.com/46cus9xw
Saturday 18 April: Fritillary walk: tinyurl.com/uxvc4tfu
Saturday 27 June: Summer Walk tinyurl.com/3rdumwdh
Thursday 2 July: Summer Evening walk tinyurl.com/46cus9xw
Merry Christmas to all our followers, see you on the other side 🎄☃️
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Merry Christmas to all our followers, see you on the other side 🎄☃️
New grassland toolkit!
Realising Grassland Potential: An Ecosystem Service Toolkit for Farmers' is a free toolkit designed to help increase understanding of nature markets and their potential to support grassland restoration.
Access it here: url.td/7F7E1 and read more here: tinyurl.com/2s3v3w2e
Realising Grassland Potential: An Ecosystem Service Toolkit for Farmers' is a free toolkit designed to help increase understanding of nature markets and their potential to support grassland restoration.
Access it here: url.td/7F7E1 and read more here: tinyurl.com/2s3v3w2e
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December 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
New grassland toolkit!
Realising Grassland Potential: An Ecosystem Service Toolkit for Farmers' is a free toolkit designed to help increase understanding of nature markets and their potential to support grassland restoration.
Access it here: url.td/7F7E1 and read more here: tinyurl.com/2s3v3w2e
Realising Grassland Potential: An Ecosystem Service Toolkit for Farmers' is a free toolkit designed to help increase understanding of nature markets and their potential to support grassland restoration.
Access it here: url.td/7F7E1 and read more here: tinyurl.com/2s3v3w2e
It's #worldsoilday 🥳Floodplain meadow soils are ecosystem service superheros.
Watch Professor David Gowing's video on floodplain meadow soils here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIki...
Learn more about floodplain meadow soils in the OU's FREE course here: www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
Watch Professor David Gowing's video on floodplain meadow soils here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIki...
Learn more about floodplain meadow soils in the OU's FREE course here: www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
Soils of Floodplain Meadows Professor David Gowing
YouTube video by FloodplainMeadows
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December 4, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's #worldsoilday 🥳Floodplain meadow soils are ecosystem service superheros.
Watch Professor David Gowing's video on floodplain meadow soils here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIki...
Learn more about floodplain meadow soils in the OU's FREE course here: www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
Watch Professor David Gowing's video on floodplain meadow soils here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIki...
Learn more about floodplain meadow soils in the OU's FREE course here: www.open.edu/openlearn/na...
As part of tiny.cc/azov001 we spent a day at
@bbowt.bsky.social
reserve Meadow Farm assesing soils to determine suitability for floodplain meadow restoration. Some of the techniques demonstrate just how much water these very well-structured soils can hold, reducing overland flooding.
@bbowt.bsky.social
reserve Meadow Farm assesing soils to determine suitability for floodplain meadow restoration. Some of the techniques demonstrate just how much water these very well-structured soils can hold, reducing overland flooding.
November 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As part of tiny.cc/azov001 we spent a day at
@bbowt.bsky.social
reserve Meadow Farm assesing soils to determine suitability for floodplain meadow restoration. Some of the techniques demonstrate just how much water these very well-structured soils can hold, reducing overland flooding.
@bbowt.bsky.social
reserve Meadow Farm assesing soils to determine suitability for floodplain meadow restoration. Some of the techniques demonstrate just how much water these very well-structured soils can hold, reducing overland flooding.
A pleasure to meet @alasdairallanmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament today to discuss our research work on the Outer Hebrides on the threatened Oceanic Wet Grasslands bit.ly/43FpLML. Hopefully we have made him as keen as we are to protect and conserve these uniquely Scottish habitats!
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
A pleasure to meet @alasdairallanmsp.bsky.social in the Scottish Parliament today to discuss our research work on the Outer Hebrides on the threatened Oceanic Wet Grasslands bit.ly/43FpLML. Hopefully we have made him as keen as we are to protect and conserve these uniquely Scottish habitats!
PhD opportunity 👇 Come and work with our awesome team to explore whether our understanding of niche segregation can be harnessed to predict the response of vegetation to alterations in hydrological regimes that are likely to result from global change. 🌱
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
2026-OU07 The role of the hydrological niche in predicting vegetation response to climate change – CENTA
centa.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 9:48 AM
PhD opportunity 👇 Come and work with our awesome team to explore whether our understanding of niche segregation can be harnessed to predict the response of vegetation to alterations in hydrological regimes that are likely to result from global change. 🌱
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
centa.ac.uk/studentship/...
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Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
How the National Trust’s art collections can shape meadow restoration
Treasures inside the National Trust’s cultural collections can also draw attention to what is going on outside these estates.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
Lovely article from @artandecology.bsky.social on our recent joint project with @nationaltrust.org.uk, looking at how how art and visual culture can help us better understand and engage audiences with meadow restoration 🥰🌱
Read it here: tinyurl.com/39r2kkk2
Floodplain meadows are rich both in fungi and carbon stored in the soil. Our co-created research project looks at fungal communities in meadows influence long-term sequestration, and whether we can seed meadows with the right fungi to store even more! 🍄
university.open.ac.uk/stem/environ...
university.open.ac.uk/stem/environ...
The Open University
Mitti Matters is a collaborative project involving a selected group of experts and citizens from Milton Keynes with varying interests in nature and the environment, working with Open University staff....
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October 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Floodplain meadows are rich both in fungi and carbon stored in the soil. Our co-created research project looks at fungal communities in meadows influence long-term sequestration, and whether we can seed meadows with the right fungi to store even more! 🍄
university.open.ac.uk/stem/environ...
university.open.ac.uk/stem/environ...
As we celebrate our amazing fungi today take 5 minutes to top up your knowledge with this BBC Ideas video written in partnership with our own FMP Director Professor David Gowing – top facts to make you the fun-guy at parties! 🤪🍄
www.bbc.co.uk/videos/czrgg...
www.bbc.co.uk/videos/czrgg...
The fascinating world of fungi
More than 90% of fungi are unknown to science. But what we do know about this incredibly adaptable and unique life-form is mind-blowing.
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October 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
As we celebrate our amazing fungi today take 5 minutes to top up your knowledge with this BBC Ideas video written in partnership with our own FMP Director Professor David Gowing – top facts to make you the fun-guy at parties! 🤪🍄
www.bbc.co.uk/videos/czrgg...
www.bbc.co.uk/videos/czrgg...
Floodplain meadows are rich in fungi & carbon stored in the soil. We’re piloting research following a co-creating project that identified fungi as an area to explore. Do fungal communities living on the meadows have an active influence on this incredible long term sequestration? #UKFungusDay #fungi
October 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Floodplain meadows are rich in fungi & carbon stored in the soil. We’re piloting research following a co-creating project that identified fungi as an area to explore. Do fungal communities living on the meadows have an active influence on this incredible long term sequestration? #UKFungusDay #fungi
As we celebrate our amazing fungi on #UKFungusDay take 5 minutes to top up your knowledge with this BBC Ideas video written in partnership with our own FMP Director Professor David Gowing. Top facts to make you the fun-guy at parties..!
bit.ly/3Iu5NNN #fungi #fungus @openuniversity.bsky.social
bit.ly/3Iu5NNN #fungi #fungus @openuniversity.bsky.social
The fascinating world of fungi
More than 90% of fungi are unknown to science. But what we do know about this incredibly adaptable and unique life-form is mind-blowing.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
As we celebrate our amazing fungi on #UKFungusDay take 5 minutes to top up your knowledge with this BBC Ideas video written in partnership with our own FMP Director Professor David Gowing. Top facts to make you the fun-guy at parties..!
bit.ly/3Iu5NNN #fungi #fungus @openuniversity.bsky.social
bit.ly/3Iu5NNN #fungi #fungus @openuniversity.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Our friends over at Herefordshire Meadows Group have been busy bees this summer 🌱💪. See what they've been up to here: tinyurl.com/59s756yf
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Our friends over at Herefordshire Meadows Group have been busy bees this summer 🌱💪. See what they've been up to here: tinyurl.com/59s756yf
We're very pleased to have contributed data to this great piece of work 😁🌱
We've brought together a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain!
Read more:
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🌱🌿🧪
Read more:
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🌱🌿🧪
A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain
UKCEH has brought together, for the first time, a diverse range of high-quality vegetation plot datasets to form a new National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain – the GBNVPD.
www.ceh.ac.uk
September 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
We're very pleased to have contributed data to this great piece of work 😁🌱
The 2026 River Restoration Centre Conference call for abstracts is now open. There are now just 3 weeks until the October 16th deadline, don't miss out!
More here: www.therrc.co.uk/rrc-conferen...
More here: www.therrc.co.uk/rrc-conferen...
September 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The 2026 River Restoration Centre Conference call for abstracts is now open. There are now just 3 weeks until the October 16th deadline, don't miss out!
More here: www.therrc.co.uk/rrc-conferen...
More here: www.therrc.co.uk/rrc-conferen...
Our #rivers are in crisis – polluted & stripped of their natural features. We’re calling on the government to urgently make #SpaceForWater & support a network of nature-rich river corridors including meadows. Sign the petition and help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
Petition: Provide funding for a nationwide, nature-rich river corridor network.
Support farmers and landowners to make space for water with more, easily accessible funding schemes. We call on government to commit to providing financial incentives to help farmers create & maintain...
petition.parliament.uk
September 22, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Our #rivers are in crisis – polluted & stripped of their natural features. We’re calling on the government to urgently make #SpaceForWater & support a network of nature-rich river corridors including meadows. Sign the petition and help restore our rivers: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
A fantastic opportunity to work with one of our Steering Group members @nationaltrust.org.uk - so much potential, not only for the restoration of nature rich floodplains, but also for using their wonderful collections to bring the story of the role and value of this precious habitat to life!
Did you know, floodplain meadows deliver multiple benefits to our ecosystem and are a crucial tool in efforts to address critical environmental challenges.
They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.
They reduce and delay flood peaks, help to combat drought, provide a home for diverse animal and plant species and help improve water quality.
September 18, 2025 at 7:20 PM
A fantastic opportunity to work with one of our Steering Group members @nationaltrust.org.uk - so much potential, not only for the restoration of nature rich floodplains, but also for using their wonderful collections to bring the story of the role and value of this precious habitat to life!