Birds, Plants and Mud – The Saltmarsh Project
The Summer of Nature Recovery trainees had the pleasure of hearing from Isabel Carlisle of the Bioregional Learning Centre (BLC) about the work being done on the Saltmarsh Project on the River Dart, which has been running for 2.5 years. What is the Saltmarsh Project? A partnership between the BLC, Environment Agency, Duchy of Cornwall […]
Reigniting the orchard
Orchards are not only historically significant sites but also culturally and environmentally valuable habitats. They used to be widely spread in the UK until the 1950s when fruit became commercially available. The loss of these wildlife hotspots has contributed to the large decline in pollinators that would have benefitted from the fruit and flowers. A […]
Introducing Medeine
Who could have thought that my back garden would be the river Dart? For the last three weeks, I have been waking up with the morning dawn chorus and eating fresh salad daily from our polytunnel in the top-hill garden. The valley is changing as nature is slowly waking up from winter bringing more warmer […]
Hester’s 9-month placement: 4 months in!
I started my nine-month placement in late September- I’d been looking forward to it all summer; having already gone through the three-month traineeship in the spring, I was constantly comparing the sweltering streets of my hometown of London with the shaded slopes and cool river of Lower Sharpham, much to the annoyance of everyone around […]
