This week is National Children’s Gardening Week. It’s about how fun gardens are for children. I like gardening and I especially like wildlife gardening and trying to make my garden as good for wildlife as possible. For National Children’s Gardening Week I’m making some videos about my garden. I have done one so far. It’sContinue reading “National Children’s Gardening Week: Plants for Wildlife”
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World Bee Day
Today is World Bee Day! Bees are really important because we need them to pollinate plants including a lot of the food we eat. But bee numbers are going down and they need help! Here are some things that we have done and you can do to help bees. Flowers for beesFlowers are really importantContinue reading “World Bee Day”
Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021
This week (2nd-8th May) is Hedgehog Awareness Week! Hedgehog Awareness Week is a time to focus on helping hedgehogs. My brothers and I have been using this week to help hedgehogs in our garden and tell other people all about helping hedgehogs too. At the start of the week, we made two new hedgehog houses.Continue reading “Hedgehog Awareness Week 2021”
Putting Out Nesting Materials For The Birds
At this time of year, birds are making nests. Putting out nesting materials for the birds to use is a way to help them. We’ve been putting out sheep’s wool which comes as insulation with our orders from Riverford Dairy. We made a holder by weaving willow and put the sheep’s wool inside it, thenContinue reading “Putting Out Nesting Materials For The Birds”
Hedgehog House
We made a hedgehog house. We made it using these instructions from the RSPB, but we changed it a bit to give it little legs to raise it up from the ground so the bottom wouldn’t get wet and soggy. We started off with a big bit of plywood. We made sure we chose plywoodContinue reading “Hedgehog House”
BTO Garden Birdwatch
This year we are doing a survey called the BTO Garden BirdWatch. The BTO Garden Birdwatch is a survey run by the British Trust for Ornitholgy (BTO). It’s to find out how birds are getting on in gardens. You have to do it every week if possible. You have to count the birds which comeContinue reading “BTO Garden Birdwatch”
Conservation Crisis
Conservation Crisis is a board game made by Tunza Games. You need to look after a wildlife reserve to try and save an endangered species. But there are poachers! First you have to choose an animal to save. The choices are elephant, gorilla, rhino and tiger. You start at HQ and you have to goContinue reading “Conservation Crisis”
Carbon City Zero
Carbon City Zero is a board game made by Possible. Possible is a charity who are trying to inspire lots of people to take action on climate change. In Carbon City Zero you have to work together with the other players. You have to try and reduce the amount of carbon produced by your city.Continue reading “Carbon City Zero”
Show the Love
Show the Love is organised by The Climate Coalition, which is a big group of people and organisations who are trying to make less climate change. It happens every February and it is a chance to think about the things we love and want to protect from climate change by making green hearts. We madeContinue reading “Show the Love”
The CPRE Star Count
Last night we did the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) Star Count. The Star Count helps to measure light pollution around the UK. We had to go outside on a clear night after 7pm when the stars would be out and wait for a few minutes to get our eyes accustomed toContinue reading “The CPRE Star Count”
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