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Been getting so much joy from my garden lately 😁🌱

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Wishing you a peaceful and blessed Good Friday

The bullocks at Pipers & Co Farm being turned out of their winter shed onto fresh spring grass. It's one of the best days in the farming calendar! 🌸 #NatureFriendlyFarming #SpringIsHere

Clock House Farm in Kent is showing what #sustainable soft fruit production can look like. 🍓 They use river-powered heating, water storage, and allow space for nature, to reduce their impact. Read more 👉 https://www.nffn.org.uk/resources/lowering-the-environmental-impact-of-soft-fruit-production

Check out our guides for talking to parliamentary candidates ahead of the 2026 Scotland & Wales #elections! 🗳️ Get tips and example questions for effective conversations with your candidates about #NatureFriendlyFarming. See our guides 👉 https://www.nffn.org.uk/resources/policy-and-views

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills. www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

Dishonest transphobic hypocrite Phillipson and the rest of the Starmer government have said puberty-blockers should be banned because “we don’t know” whether they are harmful or not, despite my research clearly demonstrating that banning them definitely IS harmful…. 1/2

With a month to go until Easter, get your bids in to the Googly Fund for small grants for friendly cricket. Could be for help with your: -Ground🚜 -Kit🏏 -Teas🫖 -Advertising🤳 We’ll fund anything that helps get more people playing friendly forms of the game in the UK & Ireland

Grateful for any shares thanks @lordstaverners.bsky.social @rafnicholson.bsky.social @charlesdagnall.bsky.social @acscricket.bsky.social @wisdencricket.bsky.social @thecricketer.com @finalwordcricket.bsky.social @nightwatchmanxi.bsky.social

Bit of retail therapy this week! #Oxfamonline 3big green ones £15 +postage.

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Summer Science Camp for Kids in Claregalway. aged 5 to 12 Monday 6th July to Friday 10th July Book now; www.junioreinsteinsscienceclub.com [email protected] 089 982 8264 #GalwayKids #STEMforKids #Galway #kidscamp #ScienceCamp #Claregalway #JuniorEinsteins

Growers, want to know how to manage pests & diseases without inputs? WEBINAR: IPM in Action with Andy Dibben & Dave Barfoot, Prof Rosemary Collier & OGA's Steven Jacobs Thur 12 Mar 1-2.30pm #IntegratedPestManagement: boost resilience with beneficial insects www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981420058...

Now let's make it easier for them to do more of it safely!

Air pollution has been formally recognised as a cancer risk in Europe. 🚨 Nina Renshaw, Head of Health at the Clean Air Fund, explains why this move gives policymakers an even clearer mandate for clean air action. @air-quality-news.bsky.social https://bit.ly/4bFpT3O

This 12 February, hear from leading environment charities about their new environment manifesto for London. The webinar is open to all, but particularly targeted at councillors, party election leads, and candidates involved in shaping borough policy ▶️ Book now www.sustainweb.org/events/feb26...

Workers in the Moss Landing area are planting strawberry roots. These plants could begin bearing fruit in March. The workers have to crouch down almost all day long and share, the work is exhausting. #WeFeedYou

SCHOOLS! Here are fifteen books. I'm giving them away. If you're a UK school and would like them, let me know. I'll pick one of you this evening. You can share it too, if you like. Ta.

This is fun for a Saturday morning…

Hoping that Storm Goretti hasn’t wreaked too much havoc for Bluesky friends … take care all, may your igloo be weatherproof and your hotpots firmly above the ice ❄️

Very wise words from @jauzfaktnevim.cz …

Standing by the bus stop, children breathing fumes from idling cars - totally normalised. #VehicleExhaustIsToxic @mumsforlungs.bsky.social

To @aransome.bsky.social @tarsociety.bsky.social and the crew, Explorers, pirates, natives too, Here's lots of cheers from me to you. #swallowsandamazons #arthurransome

If I decided it was too much bother to clean my house so I moved into an igloo in Antarctica for the rest of my life, you'd think I was awful stupid. Tech bros deciding they'd lose too much profit if they stopped destroying the Earth because they can move to Mars someday is even stupider.

Happy solstice, and let the light shine in! #pnw #wawx #WinterSolstice

Spring and Autumn with sheep.

This time of year a few years ago.

🌱 "The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway." —Michael Pollan

Fraud of the Rings 😏 Private Eye

Your regular reminder that by throwing away nature, we throw away *everything*.

Our co-founder Nicola Pastore wrote about our new data dashboard for @TransportXtra and why she is leading a campaign to reinstate the collection of travel to school data in the census bit.ly/4opwPoz

I want every child in London to breathe clean air in their school. St Mary’s Primary in Battersea is one of more than 200 schools receiving an air quality filter as part of my new initiative. Brilliant to see first-hand how they’re helping to protect young Londoners' health.

Our 2026 Heritage Seed Catalogue is out later this month Here’s the extra bit: Everyone on our newsletter list will get, with any retail order, packets of rare & unusual seeds, that we only have in tiny quantities so can’t catalogue. To register for a copy drop an email to [email protected]

So what is the real picture? 👉 NO2 legal limits should have been met across the UK in 2010 👉 On-the-ground monitoring still shows non-compliance in London, despite DEFRA saying London complies 👉 UK legal limits are 4 times as high as WHO recommend 👉 Government needs to act to reduce #AirPollution

Well done Lib Dems. Reform's 5 (now 4) MPs but clocked up 353,660 mentions, which is 70,732 mentions per MP, highest of any party with thier 14.3% vote share in 2024 Lib Dems returned 72 MPs with 12.2% of the vote in 2024. They received 46,468 mentions; their coverage works out at only 645 per MP

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Toxic air is harming our health, triggering lung conditions and worsening asthma 🫁 79% of people say it worsens their lung condition. 🌍 Support our call for urgent clean air action and sign the petition: action.asthmaandlung.org.uk/page/171493/...

@aransome.bsky.social Timothy hits back!

Anyone think #BREXIT has been an unmitigated disaster as well? Vote in the poll here. Repost when you’re done. xd.wayin.com/display/cont...