Getting antsy.. @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @nottsbag.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/a...

A visit from the leading vegetable grower and a Turks Turban appears .. www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/p... @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social

Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social

Conservation triage @nottswildlife.bsky.social @nottscoleoptera.bsky.social @nottsbag.bsky.social

The (diminishing) soundtrack of Sherwood .. @nottswildlife.bsky.social @profliztingle.bsky.social @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/t...

In the dark a glimmer of hope.. @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/d...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Guess what? Sewage spread on land for fertiliser is not being tested properly for contaminants, including forever chemicals and plastics. Previous ministers failed to tackle this. Light or no touch approach to regulation has put health and environment at serious risk.

Box no more. The end of our beautiful box bushes… www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/b... @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social

I have no words.

Utterly dismayed by this govts ripping up of protections for nature. My letter to Michael Payne MP and EM mayor Claire Ward. @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gedlingeye.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

It’s national solitary bee week!! @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/r...

Magic beans … www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/b... @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @profliztingle.bsky.social

Reasons to be cheerful ….

Our tiny orchard is coming on well for #nomowmay It’s almost elfin. There are already more butterflies this year because of the sunshine. @robcarlyle.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

Support your local sparrows!! www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/t... @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @iolowilliams.bsky.social @vanellus26.bsky.social

WTF?!

At last .. frog spawn! www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/a... @nottswildlife.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social

The pleasure of feral ‘wild’ garden honeybees www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/b... @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @bbka.org.uk

BP’s intention to focus on climate damaging fuels is a huge blow.

We’re at peak snowdrop! www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/p... Belated #WildflowerHour @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @profliztingle.bsky.social

Primula vulgaris in pretty flower for #WildflowerHour @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/8...

A tiny wealth tax on the super-rich would raise billions and boost the economy. Billions we could spend investing in our public services and reducing inequality. It really is that simple.

Cutting edge - creating features in trees for bats with Notts Bat Group @nottswildlife.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/f...

Reminder - it is the longtime policy of @TheGreenParty to abolish Ofsted. We need education for life, not schools forced to become #ExamFactories www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'Our Nature Restoration Fund will speed up the building of the new infrastructure and homes across the country' How about some nature restoration to...er...restore #nature? We are a seriously nature depleted country in a nature depleting world. Your dept is #environment.

Succinct and cogent. New runways are a big mistake.

It’s hardly hypocrisy to call for system reform…:) www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

The worst offenders are big US firms that turn over billions here and pay peanuts in tax, like Amazon - undercutting the high street, partly because they can avoid paying tax - it’s a loophole Labour needs to close. We need an online retail tax based on turnover to avoid the accounting games.

‘Angry birds’ for the @rspb.bsky.social #biggardenbirdwatch www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/a... @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @profliztingle.bsky.social @richardhawley.bsky.social

This is what we need more of, @teamlabouruk.bsky.social, not development!

Whereas the commercial abuse of farmers by supermarkets is a much tougher nut to crack. I call on supermarkets to put their money where their warm words are - pay farmers a decent rate for the food they produce.

My letter to @michaelpaynemp.bsky.social A truly effective planning system must integrate nature conservation as a core principle.. @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @iolowilliams.bsky.social

Getting ready for the @rspb.bsky.social big garden birdwatch.. @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/4...

A truly awful response from government to the petition to ban driven grouse shooting. It reads like it was written by the shooting estates themselves - full of unsupported guff and non-sequiturs. The power of landed interests in this country seems unbreakable.

Why is our taxpayer's money going to the Royals in so many ways? Empty Dartmoor prison pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year & has another 24 years left on its lease Charities which the Royals are patrons of also pay millions to them in rent Make it make sense www.thetimes.com/article/ddf3...

Great to see this extensive coverage in The Mirror on my #BiocidesBill - addressing #AMR, #Microbiotoxicity and environmental damage

Today in my coastal biology class, we listened to this beautiful climate change song calling to protect our oceans from the Greenpeace Artic stage. Seeing the students mesmerized and moved by this performance gives me hope for a healthier planet! youtu.be/4N-fqm2YLAU?...

Letter to @michaelpayne.bsky.social seeking a ban on glyphosate & other pesticides proposed by @sianberry.bsky.social @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @jemimasgarden.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social

Monty Don’s fascination with posh gardening and privilege is evidenced once again, this time in his series about British gardens… 🙈

River Trent,Nottinghamshire this morning with a “bit of water on” on you’d say if you were a fisherman.

Tonight, a vigil outside HMP Eastwood Park marks Gaie Delap’s 78th birthday. A grandmother and climate campaigner, unfairly imprisoned for her activism. She should be celebrating at home, not imprisoned for standing up for a liveable planet.

As deadly wildfires rage in LA, news comes that the world has breached the 1.5 degree limit on warming - the limit that would have prevented the most deadly effects of the climate crisis UK needs to show leadership by ending ALL new fossil fuel drilling www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'2024 first year to pass 1.5C global warming limit' So more of the extreme #wildfires as in #LosAngles, more extreme storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves...are set to come, with more #climatechaos and #climatebreakdown. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cold out there… www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/c... @nottswildlife.bsky.social @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Beautiful - and early.

Our first aconites of the season. @profliztingle.bsky.social @billsutherland.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @richardhawley.bsky.social @iolowilliams.bsky.social @katebradbury.bsky.social www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/g...

@bsbibotany.bsky.social on a frosty Leicestershire morning, recorded 21 flowers for the #NewYearPlantHunt Some surprises, like a solitary grape hyacinth under a hedge.

Looking backwards to look forwards. Choosing heritage vegetable varieties. www.sustainablegarden.co.uk/blog-posts/-... @gardenorganicuk.bsky.social @nottswildlife.bsky.social

diptera (which by their sizes appear to be of different species) are not subject to a torpid state in the winter, as most winged Insects are. At night, & in frosty weather, & when it rains & blows they seem to retire into those trees. They often are out in a fog.

Merry Christmas to followers old and new here on Bluesky.