Our friends at Jordans tell you a bit more about how they welcome wildlife on their farms, with the help of The Wildlife Trusts.

With daylight lasting longer each day, spring is well underway across Cumbria. This means that many of our early pollinators have emerged after a long winter.

Covid, and the lockdowns that came with it, has meant that many of us are spending more time at home, and perhaps looking for ways to extend the living space.

Cedar Manor is a family-owned small, luxury hotel in Windermere. The owners, Caroline and Jonathan Kaye, have improved their hotel grounds for wildlife over the last two years and below they tell…

How important is it just to walk around the garden at this time of year and just get a sense of what is happening to wildlife?

Tanya St. Pierre is Cumbria Wildlife Trusts’s ‘Planting for Pollinators’ Project Manager and fosters hedgehogs in her spare time.

Sadly, I really can't remember the last time I saw a living hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus).

Polly Rattue from Jordans offers an insight into the partnership that puts nature at the heart of their cereal farming.

We started to construct the Apple archway walk in the autumn off 2019.

Some plants tip the balance as to what is regarded as a weed/wild flower or a cultivated plant. But I think we should embrace them for their value to wildlife, and not as gardening misfits!