We Need to Talk about Plastic Grass

We Need to Talk about Plastic Grass

I have a confession to make – a few years ago we had some squares of artificial grass to make the path in our garden. Obviously, this was before I was aware that it breaks down and sheds microplastics into the environment. It was also before I appreciated just how much impact plants in soil have on climate change and […]

Soil Carbon Sequestration and Storage

Soil Carbon Sequestration and Storage

Did you know that the soil contains at least 3 times more carbon than exists in the atmosphere? There are believed to be around 2 trillion tons of carbon stored in the world’s soils. However, human activities have released vast quantities of carbon dioxide from the soil already and man-made climate change is making it even more challenging. It is […]

Wildlife Gardening in the Climate Crisis

Wildlife Gardening in the Climate Crisis

Edit Post        Edit with Elementor Switch to draft Preview Update 69/100             Wildlife Gardening in the Climate Crisis – Drought   There is a significant overlap between people who care about climate change and people who care about biodiversity. For starters, climate change is a threat to biodiversity – it is a […]

The Trouble with Tree Planting

The Trouble with Tree Planting

Tree planting can be fantastic and I have planted trees myself in the hopes of establishing native hedging for wildlife in my garden, so I am not entirely against it, but I want to highlight some of the things that I find troubling. The fundamental problem that I have with tree planting for offsetting stems from the “nature as a […]

Wildlife Ponds

Wildlife Ponds

When my youngest daughter was very small, I wanted a water feature but was really worried about safety, so we got a mini pond – essentially a large bowl that we put aquatic plants in to. We put this up out of reach at the back of the garden. It seemed at first that its sole purpose was as a […]

Hoverfly Lagoons

Hoverfly lagoons are a fantastic way to help these wonderful pollinators. We first made one after spotting the interest that the hoverflies were taking in our pond. It’s a great project to do with kids and really easy. It is also something you can do if you are unable to have a pond and/or have limited outdoor space, but also […]

Bats

Watching the bats fly over my garden at dusk never fails to bring a smile to my face. They are an indicator species, so their presence signifies that something is going right with the biodiversity in the area. Bats help to keep insect populations under control so their presence can be helpful to us in terms of reducing numbers of […]

Hedgehogs

The day our camera trap picked up our first hedgehog, I cried tears of joy. Why? Because hedgehog numbers are in decline – we have lost a third of our hedgehogs since the year 2000. So I was a little scared that we would find no hedgehogs in our area and each year the wait to see whether they have […]