Every single day we are confronted with catastrophic headlines. But what will your response be to the Nature & Climate Emergency? Strange though it may be sound, I feel a peculiar, bright and tactile hope. Not your hope of make believe and fairy tale but the hope of a dawning reality, that there are alternatives to the accepted ways of living that brought us to this dark place. | This is part of my gardening practise, where I seek to reconnect with the entire garden and all its inhabitants, in a practical, compassionate way, providing food and habitat for all, not just the humans. This means using native plants where possible to provide a food source for inverterbrates. This means creating habitat in the form of dead hedges, gabions, windbreaks, ponds, trees, ground cover plants, nest boxes etc. | And this is a practise as well; you never finish gardening. And to be a practise, it needs to be joyful. | So, if you enjoy gardening, consider growing edible crops and creating wildlife habitat, together. And consider joining a local resilience group and engaging in some climate activism, together. | Forest garden photos |  | Autumn Olive 'Big Red' (Elaeagnus umbellata) in flower. Nitrogen fixing, edible berries, windbreak. Invasive in some areas. |
|  | Tayberry, a cross between Rubus fruticosus & R. idaeus, in glorious flower. Robust, sprawling, fruitful. |
|  | Bluebell (Hyacinthoides nonscripta) woodland path in the Ceri valley. |
|  | Ferns like shuttlecocks. |
|  | Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus acris). |
| Inspirational quote | “Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach”
| | | | ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
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