Trees
Tackling the Climate and Biodiversity Crisis: Key Resources for Learning and Action
The climate and biodiversity crisis is the defining challenge of our time. Addressing it requires not only bold policy and systemic change, but also widespread awareness, understanding, and engagement. Thankfully, there is a growing number of accessible, high-quality resources designed to help individuals, communities, and organisations learn, reflect, and act. Below is a curated collection…
Read MoreHow Schools Can Benefit from Climate Ambassadors
Turning Ambition into Action. Climate change is no longer just a topic for lessons — it’s a reality schools must prepare for. The Climate Ambassadors programme connects nurseries, schools, and colleges with expert volunteers who help create practical climate action plans. Backed by the Department for Education’s sustainability strategy, it supports schools in meeting the…
Read MoreSummer Walk down to the River
A group of our community gathered by St Mary’s Church in Boston Spa last week for an exclusive tour of our local flora and fauna by one of our members, Mike Gadd. Within the first hour, we’d only walked 25m to the end of Church Fields car park as the insight Mike gave into the…
Read MoreCreate and enjoy a wildlife-friendly, and sustainable ‘grow your own’ garden
Here are our 8 tips for creating your own wildlife-friendly garden, one in which you could also ‘grow your own’ veg. BUTTERFLY GARDENS – Who’d like a garden haven for you and the butterflies to enjoy? CLIMBING PLANTS AND HEDGES CREATE A MINI PONDAny pond can become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats…
Read MoreWe love to plant seeds and pot plants, but do you know where your peat comes from?
Like and share on Facebook We all love to get close to nature and encourage our children to plant seeds and grow flowers. We want them to get their hands dirty and feel the texture of the soil, but have you ever wondered where the compost that we buy from the garden centre comes from?…
Read MorePlanting around Church Fields
We have done some planting to help pollinators with a range of wildflowers and trees, namely purging buckthorn to attract Brimstone Butterflies whose caterpillars use this plant as their primary food source. With any luck, we should have some of these beautiful butterflies become resident in our village. To find out more about purging buckthorn…
Read MoreStart a Tiny Nursery
I thought it would be a good idea to start a few trees off in my garden ready to plant out in a year or two. We just collected some acorns, prepared a bit of spare garden, laid them out so you can the check spacing and plant about 6″/15cm apart. Once the trees are…
Read MoreSurf the Web and Plant Trees
Yes, you can use a search engine that plants trees! Clicking on ads generates revenue for Ecosia, which is paid by the advertiser. Ecosia then uses at least 80% of its monthly profits to plant trees where they are needed most – in Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Peru, Indonesia, Morocco, Brazil, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, Tanzania and many…
Read MoreGreen Traffic Calming
Green Traffic calming idea An interesting way to look at the traffic calming problem: choose some slow-growing plants (some evergreen) and put them right where they are needed to gather the toxins in the air. I am sure you may be able to think of other interesting traffic calming ideas.
Read MoreWhen is a Tree a Weed?
The term weed is often misused. I think of a weed as just a plant growing in the wrong place. Look at this holly tree, for example. We all love a holly tree but this is a weed growing in a drain. Don’t worry, it will be removed from its prison and released into the…
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