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The Habitat Aid blog is set in Somerset. The blog tries to introduce some of the issues surrounding our natural environment as understood by a non ecologist. You’ll also find some practical “how to” guides. It’s written by Nick Mann, who runs Habitat Aid. Nick is an increasingly curmudgeonly bald middle-aged bloke of familiar type.

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The Stone Pine
November 7, 2022
I was 60 this year, so we treated ourselves to a trip around France and Italy. When we got back, partly to to remember it and partly because I'm tr...
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This. Is. A. Disgrace.
September 25, 2022
Friday's "mini budget" has been condemned in some quarters as a reckless, incompetently executed and morally repugnant exercise based on a failed e...
- biodiversity
- Climate change
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Tips To Help Your Garden Cope With Extreme Heat
July 17, 2022
Many perennials, shrubs and trees - particularly newly planted - are going to struggle in the kind of conditions we're faced with as I write - reco...
- Bare root plants
- bees
- biodiversity
- Climate change
- Drought
- flooding
- gardens
- Green roof
- hawthorn
- Heatwave
- hedges
- meadows
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A Little Politics
July 10, 2022
It's bizarre that as we experience at least a week of really extreme temperatures, neither climate change nor biodiversity loss have yet to feature...
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The Squeeky Wheel
April 19, 2022
I've found it very difficult to post anything recently. Horticultural topics seem trivial, environmental and political issues depressingly repetiti...
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No Time For Party Politics
November 9, 2021
The Environment Bill is in the very last stages of a long and painful labour. Its final amendments - including on the independence of the new envir...
- biodiversity
- Climate change
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Kicking Up a Stink
October 27, 2021
Back in May I wrote a blog about 7 causes we could all get behind, which I thought were relatively easy wins. One of them was cleaning up our river...
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Floodplain Meadows
October 16, 2021
Floodplain meadows are a fascinating, ancient and hugely useful landscape feature. Why don't we value them more?
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It's Up To Us
September 15, 2021
We shouldn't wait for government - we need to sort this mess out ourselves.
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Dishwashers and Climate Change
July 27, 2021
It's a critical time as we build up to the COP26 summit in Glasgow and the world looks to the UK as hosts to set a world beating example in terms o...
- Climate change
- COP26
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Barn Owls - A Story Of Our Times
July 3, 2021
A rare venture into the world of charismatic megafauna! Experiences of the lovely barn owl.
- biodiversity
- birds
- Climate change
- farming
- gardens
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Sowing Wildflowers in Spring
April 12, 2021
Sowing wildflowers in spring is more common than following nature and doing it in later summer. It's increasingly looking like it might not be the best option.
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