Radio Silent
It has been magnaminously busy at Nature Works HQ.
In my day job as Biodiversity Assistant at Ceredigion Nature Partnership, we have just set up the Glaswelltir Ceredigion Grassland group! 🎉 This will provide support & information network for people in Ceredigion who want to improve the biodiversity of their grassland and meadows. Email me jake.rayson@ceredigion.gov.uk if you happen to be in Ceredigion, happen to be interested in meadows, and happen to want to join the group.
The Hope Garden has launched, and I have been busy with a plant spreadsheet, setting up workshops, negotiating a Land User Agreement, building the website hopegarden.uk, actually buying plants (I couldn’t help myself, 20% off at The Wildflower Nursery in Pembrokeshire).
And I am off to the 14th European Conference on Ecological Restoration at the end of August! I’m looking at wood meadows as a way to manage land that is both productive and incredibly biodiverse.
I am going on work time, and taking copious notes from the conference and from the tour of a wood meadow. But I am paying for the conference ticket, accommodation, travel and meals out of my own pocket.
I have a fundraiser still going on Ko-Fi, 55% of the way there! I am bit tight on the money but will make it one way or another, even if it means roughing it for a couple of nights!
What this does mean is that I am going to be radio silent on this Nature Works newsletter for the foreseeable, as this newsletter costs a bit to run.
I will be using the rather neglected Nature Works blog for writing up my notes from the conference, and it feels like a new milestone in my forest garden journey.
Thank you for reading and thank you for all your support. Until sometime in 2025 💚 🌳 ✊