During my year working as a Natural Communities trainee in placement with Buglife I have worked on a range of projects, been given a multitude of opportunities, and received more training than you can shake a stick at. In ...
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New news
Here we are in 2015, at least in the UK. In Ethiopia it is 2007 and the Islamic calendar has assigned the current year to be 1436AH. As an introduction to the New Year I have a couple of interesting updates to note on ...
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Everything you ever wanted to know bout December, and MORE.
Instead of introducing things with a short quip about the weather, I'll set down an interesting calendar fact. December was originally the tenth month in the Roman calendar, followed by a number of dark, cold non-agricultural ...
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Bug real estate
Some of the creative and interactive workshops I have been running in the past month or so have revolved around the theme of 'bug homes' or 'bug hotels'. Alongside the organisation Green Routes, near Aberfoyle, we made a ...
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Meadow creation continues…
Thursday saw the second major piece of work carried out in our creation of the meadow at Toryglen. I went along with the Urban Roots volunteer group and we really got stuck in to converting the thick coarse grasses into the ...
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