🌳🤩💚✨😎!

Because I need to be reminded of how this book, Wild Folk, (which is still fighting to survive) was worth making.

Well this broke up the doom scroll

Absolutely! Ask anyone in the New Forest lucky enough to savour www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/exh... until mid Jan. Plus stewardingthesoil.co.uk featuring @georgemcgavin.bsky.social & @jakefiennes.bsky.social on 25th Oct which marries art, wildlife & farming & supports @nffn.bsky.social 💚🚜🐝

🌴🔥 #News: Tropical tree planting delivers optimal #climate cooling! Up to 0.8°F cooling in central Africa vs heating effects in northern regions ☠️ Protect tropical forests NOW! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Spotted!! 🤩 🦅 above the house, being bothered by a buzzard 😎 (You’ll need to zoom in to see them, but if you could see it clearly, the eagle would look like this photo from Google 😁)

@tamsintheshed.bsky.social I’m savouring ‘Wild Folk’ alongside mirandarutter.com/album/280898... (complete with a smattering of @samsweeney.bsky.social ) A perfect pairing 🎻🐦‍⬛🎻🪗 @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social have you discovered Bird Tunes yet? 🎶

What do wasps eat? First molecular data for native zone Vespula Yellowjackets. So happy to see this out, finally! Started in 2018.. or maybe 2017.. 🫣involving @uclcber.bsky.social MRes (Ben Bellekom) and MSci (Georgia Law) students @ucllifesciences.bsky.social @dr-bob-brown.bsky.social

SPOTTED! 🤩 Fabulous 5 page (!) article about St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery’s imminent “Life of the Fields” exhibition in Lymington. @georgemcgavin.bsky.social & @jakefiennes.bsky.social at linked event stewardingthesoil.co.uk in Oct, along with Carry Akroyd, “Meadow Flowers and Turbines”.

✨Bird Tunes 💿 arrived today ✨ Wonderfully fabulously brilliant! 😍🎻

👉 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bob’s back! 🐝

Happy Monday! ☀️ Top start to the week with @samsweeney.bsky.social and scuttling sandpipers on R3 around 140 mins in & at the end. 🎶🎻🪗🎻 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Martin Down 🦋🐝🌞🐑 Butterflies, bees, linnets, stonechats…

Love where we live 🌳🌻

Well that was lovely! 🌞🍹 Flower farm Friday 🌻

Up the creek… Incredibly quiet & still water on the Isle of Wight.

@georgemcgavin.bsky.social ?

Life of the Fields 🚜 tonight’s excitement! aaand… less than 2 months until this gem opens www.stbarbe-museum.org.uk/whats-on/exh... ! Look out for October’s stewardingthesoil.co.uk event starring @georgemcgavin.bsky.social & @jakefiennes.bsky.social supporting @nffn.bsky.social 💚🤩🪲

“What we all need to do is open our eyes and think a little bit more about stuff. If we all do that, that's what will make a difference.”💚 Gemma Metheringham

& alongside @jakefiennes.bsky.social 🤩 our October event stewardingthesoil.co.uk which is in support of @nffn.bsky.social also stars @georgemcgavin.bsky.social 😎🪲🐛🪱🐝🦋! & includes the fab ‘The Life of the Fields’ exhibition 125 years of the agricultural landscape through the eyes of 50 artists 💚

OMG! White tailed 🦅, @jakefiennes.bsky.social, Robert Maton @newforestcommoner.bsky.social, Gilbert White, Eating for the Planet, Laura Knight, Rachel Carson, solar energy, rewilding, regenerative farming - this week’s mag has it ALL!! Check out stewardingthesoil.co.uk supporting @nffn.bsky.social

It's just 20,000 people and it's just 2% of wealth over 10 million pounds. It's a sum of money they won't even miss, and yet it's 24 billion that we can spend on so many really important things and help so many people in our country.

Song Thrush Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Song Birds, 1974)

This #30DaysWild, get creative and give your stuff a second life! 🧵♻️ Repair clothes, upcycle jars, fix your gadgets or give old furniture a new lease of life! Find out more: buff.ly/u8YO17Y

Such good news 💙🐟🩵 @anglingtrust.bsky.social

@lussas.bsky.social @newforestfoe.bsky.social know any teachers who can help? 👚👖👕🩳

✨cake-tastic! 🎻🍰🤩✨

A wealth tax isn’t radical, it’s fair.

Wowzers! Cool or what?!😎 Thanks @ministryofeco.bsky.social @dalevince.com & LUSH for opportunity to connect with good people overflowing with integrity, goodness, initiative & generosity. Home feeling nourished, inspired & revitalised (Who knew 🍄‍🟫🍫brownie was a thing?!) Enjoy LIDO ⚡️🧚

@merylbatchelder.bsky.social Bit excited 🤩🎉 What to wear…?!! 💚

LIDO’s use of the Grid Faeries x Ecotricity ‘big ass battery’ - powered by the wind and sun, means no diesel fumes and no climate guilt - backstage and front of house. This isn’t just better for the environment - it’s a better way to party…:)

Stewarding the Soil - event supporting the Nature Friendly Farming Network on Sat 25th Oct @jakefiennes.bsky.social – Farming with Nature @georgemcgavin.bsky.social – Bug World: Sex, violence & a cast of millions Carry Akroyd – Found in the Fields: 40 Years of Change in the Farmed Landscape

@georgemcgavin.bsky.social have you ever seen such a thing..?🐰💩🍄

Happy half term to all those celebrating. 🥳 Make time for self care and reviewing those life work balance boundaries 😊 What can you tweak in your favour? 🤔

📚✨ Wishing all the incredible teachers, support staff, and everyone working in education a very happy half term! You’ve earned every moment of rest and relaxation. Thank you for your dedication, passion, and the difference you make every single day. Enjoy the break — you deserve it! 🌟🍎 #HalfTerm

How Attenborough’s Ocean exposed ‘violent’ bottom trawlers. “We were aghast, it was a shock,” said producer Toby Nowlan, recalling the first time he saw video of the destructive fishing practice, where weighted nets are dragged across the sea bed. 👇 www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Must read investigation: Factory farmed fish has many problems, it’s hard to know where to start - but chief among them is that it takes roughly 5 wild fish to make 1 farmed fish - in a world with limited resources it’s economic and environmental madness to feed ourselves this way. buff.ly/OH460vE

3 small actions: Be kind, laugh & make stuff Image: www.instagram.com/lynn_giunta

Last remaining solo dates for a long while are coming up!!! Book soon. Some are nearly sold out...

Gardening in drought - emergency tips for the continued dry spell www.wildway.info/p/gardening-...

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Possible if we don’t look at our diets. A shift to a lower meat diet (not saying we must be vegan) would free up a lot of land, and allow us to collectively feed more people with less space.

A word to delight in...

Four candles

I love the thought that some of these noisy, shrill-crying oystercatchers that fuss around our coastline are actually in their 40s – fantastic, wise survivors, as well as obviously brilliant parents. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Summer Term Giveaway! Ok to celebrate my last term of teaching here’s a wee giveaway 😊 To win everything in the video: Like and share this post. Follow me. It’s that simple 😁 Closes 7pm Friday 25th April and I’ll draw it as soon as I get time after that 😉

What I remember with particular gratitude is his extraordinary environmental leadership, on what he called “care for our common home”, with the publication of Laudato Si’ www.vatican.va/content/fran...