Learn more about the wildlife and wild places in Kent and beyond.
Wild About Gardens (WAG) Volunteers were down at Marden Meadows last month getting a tour from local farmer, Lou Carpenter. Alan Rainey from the WAG group describes the importance that these relationships have for the future of our planet.
Wild About Garden volunteer, Jim Highman, shares his tips on creating a wildlife friendly garden without the three P's: peat, plastic or pesticides.
Penny Brook is a Wild About Garden volunteer who has opened her garden to the public. To mark National Gardening Week (1-7 May), we're giving you a sneak peak into her beautiful wildlife friendly garden.
Helen Knell writes about what a WAGA is and why she became one.
Seeing and hearing bees and other insects in our garden is one of the joys of spring and summer. Recently Peter and Penny have been delighted by solitary bees nesting in their bug homes. Here they share their experience of what did and didn't work to encourage bees and bugs to their garden, and offer some handy tips ahead of National Insect Week.
Penny and Peter were inspired to create a patch of wilder lawn about fifteen years ago when they first noticed the leaves of a common spotted orchid in the grass at the bottom of their garden. In this blog, they share their practical experience of turning that part of their lawn into a mini-meadow.
As the temperature is rising, here are a few tips to help the wildlife in the hot weather.
It’s a gardener’s greatest joy, to watch the bees visit their flowers in the spring and to hear the loud buzzing of summer all around. Sadly, supporting our bees is not as straight forward as planting lots of lovely flowers.
