Jan 12, 2021 | Nature Blog, News
Nature Blog – Community Garden As we come into 2021, the Community Garden is looking beautifully prepared and inviting. Fabulous volunteers have created beds for veg, flowers and fruit, with woodchip paths in between. We sowed a green manure –‘phacelia’ to keep hold...
Jan 5, 2021 | Nature Blog, News
New year, new day, new restrictions, except we can still get out into the garden, well, when the weather allows!! So, continue to stock up on seeds and plants, or at least put them on order. Early potatoes are in garden centres now, so do not delay. At the end of the...
Dec 29, 2020 | Nature Blog
The River Chess is again very polluted and may have a real detrimental effect effect on human and animal health. Such a disaster and outrage that this keeps happening.
Dec 11, 2020 | Nature Blog, News
Why we celebrate New Year on January 1st has always puzzled me. The solstice is on (usually) the 21st of December (and winter does not start till the 21 December anyway) after which the days get longer. That is all plants are concerned with, longer days and warmth...
Nov 19, 2020 | Nature Blog, News
Chalk streams are a characteristic and attractive feature of the Chilterns landscape. They are also a globally rare habitat, confined to north west Europe and to the UK in particular. In fact more than 85% of all the chalk streams in the world, are found in England....
Nov 19, 2020 | Nature Blog, News
I have recently received an email from Sarah Bentley who is the new CEO at Thames Water. She has recently visited the River Chess at various places and appreciates why the health of the river is so important to everyone. She has accepted our request for a few local...
