The Meadow-Makers’ Conference 2025
12 July 2025
The Meadow Makers’ Conference marks the 10th anniversary of Moor Meadows and brings together landowners, farmers, and gardeners for a day filled with expert talks, inspiring ideas, and practical advice - all within the broader context of nature recovery. The event will take place in the spacious Jubilee Hall in Chagford, Dartmoor. During the breakout sessions, attendees will have the opportunity to visit several nearby meadows. We have a fantastic lineup of speakers - see the inspiring programme and more details here.
Open Meadows 2025
18 May 2025 to 1 September 2025
Open Meadows is a unique opportunity to visit some of Devon’s most beautiful and diverse privately owned meadows. The meadows are open to all during the programme, and the vast majority are free to visit.
OPEN MEADOWS
If you’d like to open your meadow in 2025 for an afternoon, for others to enjoy, we’d love to hear from you. Please message us on the contact page.
In summer 2024 over two dozen beautiful meadows opened, some for an afternoon, some for weeks. A big thank-you to all those meadow-owners who took part in the programme.
Join our Forum!
The Forum is where you can post questions by topic and receive answers from a whole community of meadow enthusiasts, start or join informative discussions, share photos, book recommendations, handy Apps and much more. You are invited to view the Forum, you are not required to register. However, if you’d like to receive a weekly Digest of posts (which will be snippets, so you can dive into anything of interest), plus receive news of Moor Meadows events, or if you want to join in and post something yourself, then you will need to register. Joining the Forum is free and you can unsubscribe at any time. Take a look at the Forum
Love inspirational wildlife related talks?
Visit the Moor Meadows youtube channel to view videos of some of our previous talks with top speakers, plus informative practical videos.
Here’s a flavour:
Renowned ecologist George Peterken, author of Meadows, the definitive guide, on A Celebration of Wildflower Meadows
Professor Dave Goulson, eminent bee expert and author, on How to Save our Insects
Author of Gardening for Wildlife, Adrian Thomas, on How to Make and Maintain Mini-meadows
Plantlife’s botanist Matt Pitts on How to Create a Meadow (field scale)
A trio of top speakers on Conservation Grazing Part 1
Charlie Burrell from Knepp Estate on Rewilding Knepp
Author and wildlife documentary film maker Nick Gates on Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden
All our wildlife related talks can be viewed here
If you’d like to catch up on some reading, see our meadow and wildlife related book recommendations: