How to compost your waste
Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.
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How to create a mini pond
Even a small pond can be home to an interesting range of wildlife, including damsel and dragonflies, frogs and newts. Any pond can become a feeding ground for birds, hedgehogs and bats – the best…
How to create a vertical garden
Gardening doesn’t need to be restricted to the ground - bring your walls to life for wildlife! Many types of plants will thrive in a green wall, from herbs and fruit to grasses and ferns.
How to create a hedgehog hole
Help hedgehogs get around by making holes and access points in fences and barriers to link up the gardens in your neighbourhood.
From compost heaps to garden ponds: grass snakes uncovered
Sophie Baker, Communications Officer for the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire & Northamptonshire, reveals why we should celebrate, not fear, this mysterious British reptile.
How to create a container garden for wildlife
Pots and containers are a great way of introducing wildlife features onto patios, or outside the front door. They are also perfect for small gardens or spaces like window ledges or roofs. Herbs,…
How to create pressed flower bookmarks
Pressed flower bookmarks make a beautiful keepsake or gift! Here's a step-by-step guide to making your own by Katie Armstong from Durham Wildlife Trust.
Charities call out companies still selling climate-harming compost
Environment experts have written to garden retailers challenging them to end the sale of peat-based compost ahead of global climate and nature talks this year.
COP26: Actions that go beyond the conference
Here The Wildlife Trusts discuss what they want to see from COP26, in actions that go beyond the conference.
Environmental groups and Monty Don write to Government calling for end to use of peat compost
Environmental groups have come together to write a letter to the Environment Secretary calling for a ban on the use of peat in compost by 2025. Celebrity gardener, broadcaster and writer Monty Don…
‘Common Grounds’: A Day of Action
On Saturday 12 October, thousands of people around the UK will meet with their MP to talk about action for nature and climate.
With a new UK Government now in place, nature’s recovery must be prioritised.
With a new UK Government now in place, nature’s recovery must be prioritised.
Help us create a wilder Ingleborough
Ingleborough and its iconic foothills are the last stronghold for rare and threatened species that are found nowhere else in the world.
Yorkshire Wildlife Trust