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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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Groundsfest
September 13, 2024
We were at Groundsfest this week. There were some good and some bads things going on. Mostly good.
- Groundsfest
- Habitat Aid Ltd.
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Mega Pond!
August 4, 2024
I always try to tread lightly in the landscape, but there are times when needs must, and this was one of them. A pond is such a beautiful and impor...
- Climate change
- meadows
- ponds
- Somerset
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Flora not so Locale
July 15, 2024
When we started off selling wildflower seed there was a voluntary trade body called Flora Locale. It laid down very sensible rules for the producti...
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Crisis, What Crisis?
July 5, 2024
Serious problems need serious people with serious solutions.
- bees
- biodiversity
- Climate change
- Drought
- farming
- flooding
- Michael Gove
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The Mulberry: Good Things Come To Those Who Wait?
June 14, 2024
Our Medlar trees aren't quite the most eccentric plant in our forest garden. They're beaten into second place by the Mulberry bush. It was seeming...
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My Seed Hasn't Worked!
May 24, 2024
Sowing wildflower seed mixes needs patience.
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Blooms Not Beewash
April 27, 2024
We're buzzzzzed to be sponsoring the Bumblebee Conservation Trust stand again at the Chelsea Flower Show. I can't wait for my volunteering day; it...
- bees
- biodiversity
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A Contested Land
March 28, 2024
21st century Britain in collision with prehistory on Dartmoor.
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Skin In The Game
March 17, 2024
I do love a bit of GQT.* I was toddling back from a site visit on Friday afternoon and caught last week's episode, from Solihull. The last question...
- gardens
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The Cost of Plants
March 10, 2024
A tide of rising prices seems to have left some key products behind...
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A Sense Of Place
February 16, 2024
Understanding the places we live.
- Digressions
- hedges
- Landscape
- Somerset
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Wild Service Tree (Torminalis glaberrima)
February 5, 2024
The Wild Service tree (Torminalis glaberrima) - all you need to know.
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