by Sarah | May 8, 2022 | Guest Blogs
Countryside changes: Regenerative Agriculture: Part 1 (c) Bel Myers Soil: Our Hidden Resource There’s a growing realisation that healthy soil is as vital to life as clean air, water and thriving ecosystems. It provides us with food and helps to safeguard these...
by Sarah | Mar 8, 2022 | Guest Blogs
St George’s Meadow Takes Root Marches Meadow Group (MMG) was fortunate to obtain funding to create a new meadow through the Green Recovery Challenge Fund award to the Stepping Stones project. MMG considered various sites but when the PCC of St. George’s Church,...
by Sarah | Feb 7, 2022 | Guest Blogs
CPRE Shropshire’s Hedgerow Heroes project CPRE Shropshire has been running its first ever hedgerow project this season (Autumn/Winter 2021-22) in the South of the county and we’ve produced a sub 3 minute slideshow summarising what we have been up to for...
by Middle Marches | Jul 5, 2021 | Guest Blogs
Framing Nature – conservation and culture ‘Framing Nature – conservation and culture’ by Laurence Rose, recommendation by Rosie Wood Covering just ten species, Laurence dedicates a chapter to nine of them. The tenth, our own, winds through and around the fates of the...
by Middle Marches | Jul 5, 2021 | Guest Blogs
Why I joined the Middle Marches Community Land Trust Why did I join the Middle Marches Community Land Trust? By Andrew Wood Well, my wife is one of the Trustees and I didn’t really feel I had any choice! Seriously? Yes. She’s my life partner and I try to support her...
by Middle Marches | Jul 5, 2021 | Guest Blogs
The return of the turtle dove The soft purring of the turtle dove was something many of us were once very used to hearing in the summer – but for most British people, no more. Their numbers fell by 77% between 1970 and 2001 (source British Trust for Ornithology). And...