Composting at home
I started totally using peat free compost in 2004 when working for BBC Gardeners World.
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Get closer to the field and a little more behind the scenes by reading about the wild experiences, wildlife insights and recollections of staff and volunteers – writers from all over the organisation, from our Reserve Officers to our student placements.
We welcome guest bloggers! If you have something to write home about - whether you've got a trail cam in your garden, or you've been bird watching, or visited one of our nature reserves - if it's to do with Cumbria's wildlife and wild places then we'd love to hear from you!
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Swift Awareness Week
Swift expert Sarah Gibson explores the early life of these brilliant birds
Leaving hedges to their own devices is magic for wildlife
Hedgerows seem to hold a hidden aura of magic from the tallest to the shortest.
The lives of the osprey chicks... a closer look
Alasdair McKee, one of our amazing volunteers at Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve, takes a closer look into the lives of this year's three chicks.
Swifts, swallows and martins
How to identify swifts, swallows, sand martins and house martins
Grow don't mow
There's no doubt about it, wildlife gardening is a captivating subject both in theory and in practice.
Ospreys return & eggs arrive....
Ospreys have nested at Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s Foulshaw Moss reserve for the ninth year. Guest blogger and Foulshaw Moss Nature Reserve volunteer Alasdair McKee tells us more...
A cold snap this April
There is a definite chill in the air as I write this in the first official week in spring.
March 2021 Wildlife Gardening Enews
Spring news from the garden at Plumgarths.
In praise of moths
Chris Scaife gives us an overview of some of the wonderful moths found in Cumbria