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Biodiversity

  1. Bringing Back the Birds - tips from Monty Don
     
    • Don’t cut seed-bearing plants back until Spring
    • Put up nesting boxes and bird tables
    • Keep an area of long grass
    • Provide fresh-water
    • Plant native species and lots of berries, especially hawthorn
    • Plant hedges but do not cut during nesting season (Feb-Sept)
    • Never use insecticides
       
  2. Adopt a vegetable. With a donation of £10 to the Henry Doubleday Research Association’s (HDRA’s) ‘Adopt a Veg’ scheme, you can help pay for their Heritage Seed Library’s (HSL’s) handling, storage and propagation of vanishing varieties. If you become a member, you can choose six seed packets a year from the HSL seed-bank to grow yourself. www.hdra.org.uk
     
  3. Plant trees, plants and seeds, wherever and whenever you can, whether it be a window box, your garden or patches of exposed soil down your street. You will be helping to preserve biodiversity, sequester carbon and cheer up your neighbours.

 

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