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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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Understanding The Cost Of Plants
May 6, 2019
We had a lovely trip up to Yorkshire via East Anglia last week visiting some of our suppliers. And the odd pub, needless to say. Hot Pipe Callu...
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Wot! No Hedge Plants?
January 9, 2019
The commercial world of native hedge plants is a funny one. There are a few hardy folk out there selling British hedge species which they themselv...
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We Are 10!
October 6, 2018
Amazingly, Habitat Aid is 10 years old. It started off as what now looks like a lunatic plunge into the unknown. I'd had 30+years in the City and n...
- Digressions
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The Green Economy in the UK... What's Missing
June 29, 2018
According to Wikipedia, the green economy is one which "aims at reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities, and... aims for sustainable...
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Farmland - Does It Really Matter and What Should We Do With It?
January 4, 2018
Much interest in Michael Gove's prognostications on farmland subsidies today. This is a really important issue for environmentalists - perhaps more...
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A Little Reason
September 7, 2016
We should all help the under-funded and unheralded science based projects and NGOs who continue to work quietly away at improving our understanding of the natural world around us.
- bees
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Hedge Planting In The Wet
February 5, 2016
Hedge and copse scheme, Cambridgeshire. By my reckoning, this bare root planting season the Habitat Aid hedge elves will have planted something ...
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New Year Newsletter
January 6, 2016
Happy New Year! Thank you so much for your support in 2015, which has enabled us to donate £20,000 to small UK Conservation Charities. 2016 has...
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Spring 2015 Newsletter
April 6, 2015
Spring is springing all over the place at Habitat Aid's Somerset HQ. I suddenly feel terribly behind in the garden. The veg is ok but everything el...
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Christmas Newsletter
December 23, 2014
It's here again - happy Christmas! The days are growing longer and spring suddenly seems much closer. Thank you everyone for helping to make this a...
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A Christmas Tale
December 14, 2014
I went Christmas tree shopping this afternoon and, as you can see, bought a beautiful tree. I'm always a bit nervous about buying the family Chr...
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Newsletter: November 2014
November 6, 2014
Barring the Yellow Rattle the seeding is all done for another year and we're lining up all our hedge plant orders, to start delivery from next week...
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Understanding The Cost Of Plants

Wot! No Hedge Plants?

We Are 10!

The Green Economy in the UK... What's Missing

Farmland - Does It Really Matter and What Should We Do With It?

A Little Reason

Hedge Planting In The Wet

New Year Newsletter

Spring 2015 Newsletter

Christmas Newsletter

A Christmas Tale

Newsletter: November 2014