Category: environment
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Taking the Guards Off Tree Planting
What’s happening where you live to regenerate the environmental damage we’ve inflicted? Where I live, an area with below average tree – coverage the council is planting a tree for every resident; about 700,000 trees. The plan is to reach carbon – neutrality targets by 2030. The planet is hotter than ever with an 1.2C…
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Day Cation 3:
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Day – Cation: Time in the here and now
With so many away currently I decided to take advantage of the stillness and see how a day – break could work for me. Shelving the ongoing search for a perfect holiday here or abroad and leaving my lap top was a happy time and there was quite some activity in the wilderness. My quest…
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Live On Our Towers
life during lockdown
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Crows or blackbirds: an omen or not?
I know black crows are supposed to herald bad news but I haven’t heard it about blackbirds. Good job as there’s an abundance of them at the moment where I am. The brambles have been buzzing with nests and one of the mothers in particular is so excited by her task of rearing them, constantly…
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UK mild climate over
Change in weather looks set to continue
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What jobs we do
I admit I saw this on an interesting blog on an allotment web site I thought lovely. Many techniques haven’t changed so much – now I’m planning on fresh produce for eight months a year. There are plenty of stories on our allotment too, much known by the plot holders most of whom appear to…
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From courgetti into spiral of fear
what to cook with the current crop?
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