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Pruning Old Apple Trees

It's important to prune old apple trees to keep your orchard healthy, productive and long lived.

Bees and Warm Wet Winters

My poor bees are having another terrible winter. "Terrible" winters for honeybees are warm and wet, not cold, which they can deal with quite happily. If it's consistently warm and...

Climate Change, Hen Harriers and Bees in the Po...

I had pondering time on my hands today at hospital in Bath, recovering from a minor operation. It went swimmingly, all well thank you - let's just say it was...

Food or Fauna?

Miles King is a well informed ecologist who I read for self-improvement - God knows I need it. His latest blog asks some uncomfortable questions about intensive farming. As he...

The Magic of Green Roofs

It has been three years since we planted the green roof for our new house with wildflower plug plants, which has turned out to be a fabulous success. For many,...

State of Nature 2016: "the countryside" is broken

State of Nature 2016: we need a major rethink, and fast.