Next in our volunteer stories series is Janet! Featured in the Winter 2018 edition of the Grazer: Since the community garden project began in 2010, I have had the privilege of working alongside Janet who first came to Fordhall when…

Are you dreaming of a green Christmas? Great! Our favourite four legged farm friend, Poppy, shares her top tips for enjoying your most environmentally friendly Christmas yet! Let’s get started – woof! Let’s start with trees, as you folks seem…

Continuing our volunteer stories series, please enjoy Julie’s which was featured in the Spring 2022 edition of the Grazer: Last month I had the pleasure of sitting down for a chat with Julie and her dog, Noel, (might have slowed up the…

As winter draws in, the cold, damp and shorter days can all be can all be barriers to getting out and about and connecting with others. However, one such way of beating the ‘winter blues’, by connecting with nature and…

The English countryside boasts a whole range of natural delights, and yet the vast majority of it is out of bounds for the general population. According to the Right to Roam campaign, 92% of the countryside and 97% of rivers…

Our Resident Nutritional Therapist Kate Bevan Wood Dip CMN mBANT CNHC (pictured) shares her top Good Mood Foods – these are the foods that we can eat to help nourish our brains and support a happy and healthy mood, and I’m…

It’s fair to say most of us don’t know a great deal about soil. It’s that brown muddy stuff that makes things grow and gets lodged under your fingernails after a day in the garden – right? Soil is made…

Most of us will have heard of ‘meat-free Mondays’ – a campaign to encourage people to abstain from eating meat for one day a week. The idea behind the movement is to raise awareness of the impact of intensive meat…

The nature trail through the deciduous wood on the way to the motte and bailey site, provided an example of red campion to the left of the trail. The red campion does not have a scent unlike the white campion,…

Social Prescribing Day is an annual celebration of social prescribing, recognising the UK wide community groups and projects which have kept us healthy throughout the pandemic and beyond. What is social prescribing? Social prescribing, also sometimes known as community referral,…