News
Grassland Nature ID
Like many people in Wales, I seem to have several projects on the go simultaneously!
HopeGarden
News
Wildlife ID equipment for Cilgerran school
We‘ve had some bad news and good news. The bad news is that we weren‘t successful in our grant application to Transition Bro Gwaun‘s Community Climate Fund, because we didn‘t provide any evidence of habitat improvement.
News
Fixed Point Photography FTW
We purchased a couple of Fixed Point Photography brackets for the Hope Garden, from a company called Landmark.
News
Nature ID hope project
Together with West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre, we’ve made a Expression of Interest for wildlife identification equipment and training for Ysgol Cilgerran from Transition Bro Gwaun Community Climate Fund.
Design
Species on my mind
Yusef from West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre ran an ecology survey at the site of the Hope Garden.
News
Mint challenge with Mintopia
Ysgol Cilgerran, via the Hope Garden, is going to take part in the IntMintMint Challenge run by Si Poole.
Workshops
Perennial Veg workshop with Stephanie Hafferty
The free Hope Garden workshops continued with a visit to Stephanie Hafferty’s Half Acre Homestead near Lampeter, where she showed the fully subscribed and assembled crowd a range of perennial and perennialised annual vegetables in her chokka garden.
Education
Glittering ideas for the Hope Garden
Marianne and myself had the honour of running a garden design workshop for Ysgol Cilgerran on Friday 20th September, with the same group who came to the Wildlife ID workshop.
Workshops
The Hope Garden Is Go
Maybe because of the relatively low number of guests, the workshop at Cilgerran Village Hall felt really productive and engaged, and covered a lot of ground, explaining the ideas behind the community space in a wildlife forest garden that is the Hope Garden.
Education
The children were out standing in their field
The Hope Garden is incredibly fortunate to have funding from Local Places for Nature to cover some workshops with Ysgol Cilgerran.