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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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Sabre Wasp
June 25, 2022
Last week I was minding my own business watering the tomatoes in the greenhouse when an extraordinary beast buzzed past me. It must have been nearl...
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Verging on the Impossible
June 13, 2022
Just up the lane we have a really nice verge, which is a kind of mini-meadow. We're acknowledging the value of this kind of area for wildflowers na...
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Unwilding
May 28, 2022
HUGE congratulations to local garden designers Urquhart and Hunt, who won Best of Show at Chelsea this year - and at their first attempt! What fant...
- biodiversity
- fruit trees
- gardens
- hedges
- Hookgate Cottage
- meadows
- orchards
- ponds
- Rewilding
- wildflowers
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A Nightingale Sang...
May 3, 2022
Nightingales; a lesson for our times.
- birds
- farming
- hedgerow
- hedges
- Rewilding
- trees and woodland
- wildflowers
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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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We Are a B Corporation!
March 27, 2022
We are a B Corporation!
- Digressions
- Habitat Aid Ltd.
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The Parable of the Hedgehog
February 23, 2022
How can anyone not love a hedgehog? They're not just eccentrically endearing but, for many of us of a certain age, they conjure up memories of tim...
- biodiversity
- nature
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Farming in the Brave New World
January 10, 2022
A Revolution in UK Farming? Sadly the Oxford Farming Conference this year was virtual, which was a great shame. Not least because I was looking for...
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The Top Ten Flowers For Bees
January 9, 2022
I used to be guilty of blithely writing top ten lists like this. For many, bees tend to be shorthand for pollinators generally, so you might think ...
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Hedge Laying and Culture Wars
December 20, 2021
Regular readers of this nonsense will know I'm a big fan of not just hedges, but also hedge laying. The National Hedgelaying Society is one of the ...
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The Sustainable Farming Incentive Scheme
December 3, 2021
I'm not by nature a curmudgeonly old cynic, I promise, but I'm getting pretty provoked. I was excited in 2018 listening to Michael Gove talking ab...
- biodiversity
- farming
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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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