Sustainable Blewbury

We have a few interesting events coming up that we hope you will come to.

Gardening with ‘the early birder’: creating a wildlife-friendly garden with Jon Mason
Monday April 7th, 8.00pm Vale Room, Blewbury Village Hall

Jon Mason has created a wildlife-friendly garden at his home at Little Orchard, at the foot of the Chiltern Hills. A geography teacher for 35 years, Jon is also a writer, naturalist and photographer. He’ll advise Blewbury gardeners (and would-be gardeners) about gardening with nature and providing the best possible conditions for our wildlife to flourish. For a preview of his work visit his website https://www.theearlybirder.co.uk/. Tickets on the door £8 including a drink of your choice.

Community Orchard at Ticker’s Folly.

This will look different this year. The Parish Council and Sustainable Blewbury have agreed to extend the Wildflower Meadow to include the Orchard, by changing the way the grass between the trees is mown. From now on, we will only mow the grass between the orchard trees once a year, in the autumn, at the same time as the wildflowers are mown. The hope is that orchids and other wildflowers will naturally spread into the orchard patch. We will continue to manage the trees with the aim to make them sturdy and accessible. It will take another 30 years or so, for the trees will reach maturity, hopefully surrounded by wildflowers, rather than mown grass.

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