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Regenerative Agriculture
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 other...
Marches Meadow Group making meadows
St George's Meadow Takes RootMarches 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,...
CPRE Hedgerow Heroes
CPRE Shropshire's Hedgerow Heroes projectCPRE 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 the past 9...
Framing Nature – conservation and culture
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...
Why I joined the Middle Marches Community Land Trust
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...
The return of the Turtle Dove
The return of the turtle doveThe 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...
Restoring Shropshires Verges Project (RSVP)
Restoring Shropshires Verges Project (RSVP)Over the last 60 years, 97% of our wildflower meadows have been lost, which has had a huge impact on wildlife. Road verges offer a real opportunity to help reverse this loss and if managed correctly, they could form long,...
Norbury Hill (July 2021 update)
Norbury Hill (July 2021 update)Situated centrally in the Stepping Stones area in south west Shropshire, Norbury Hill has been described as ‘the largest stepping stone’ between two important sites of conservation, the Long Mynd belonging to the National Trust and the...
3D buffer strips – doing more for the environment
3D Buffer Strips 3D buffer strips - doing more for the environment A new study looks at how buffer zones can deliver even more benefits for the environment, and reduce diffuse pollution from agriculture. This presentation is a summary of the findings. How riparian...
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