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Environment


Funding awarded to community woodland
Pennygillam Community Woodland has been awarded a £20,000 grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, helping to maintain, improve and enhance the site for visitors and wildlife.

Local author publishes children's novel inspired by Cornish woodlands
Talking fruit, grumpy aunts and illusive space monsters? This is just a normal day for The Squirrels of Settledown Forest.

Learning from The Land Gardeners: How to feed and heal the soil in your garden and grow cut flowers throughout the year
The Cornwall Garden Society’s (CGS) February lectures will be given by Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy who established The Land Gardeners to research plant and soil health through growing, cutting and designing.

Secrets from the Cornish garden - Pencarrow House and Gardens
Cornwall’s vast, rolling countryside and coastline is home to incredible country estates with typically English, rose-walled gardens; tropical havens overlooking sandy shores; and outdoor spaces created using methods and styles from across the world, brought to our doorsteps.

Secrets from the garden - Kelly House and Gardens
Devon and Cornwall’s vast, rolling countryside and coastline is home to incredible country estates with typically English, rose-walled gardens; tropical havens overlooking sandy shores; and outdoor spaces created using methods and styles from across the world, brought to our doorsteps.

Ways to recycle your Christmas tree in Cornwall
Find the best way to recycle your real Christmas tree after the festive season…

The Nature Journal: Jesus Well
There are over two hundred Holy Wells situated in Cornwall, all named after the different Celtic saints, except for one; Jesus Well.

Nature: Winter robin
The sight of a robin on a winter walk would not usually come as a surprise. However, on a walk back in November, seeing a group of four or five robins in a blackthorn hedgerow near Pendennis Point was quite unexpected.

Sovay Berriman
Sovay is an artist, leader, champion of the arts as well as Director of plumbing and heating company, Plumb Maid. They were awarded the 2023/24 Visual Arts Fellowship, supported by a-n The Artists Information Company.
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Wildflowers sown along new Cornish road
A volunteer group known as the Wildflower Warriors, and the Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre (NWC) have been bringing colour and life to a major new link road being built in Cornwall with a wildflower planting scheme.

Bee group invites youngsters to get involved
Launceston Beekeeping Group is encouraging young people in the community to come and get involved in a new junior section of the group.

Planting of 7 hectare community woodland underway in Bodmin
You may have noticed that a woodland of trees and native shrubs have appeared at Bodmin Beacon...

Budding photographers to mark wildlife centre's 25-year celebration
The Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre (NWC) turns 25 this year. To celebrate, it has launched a UK-wide wildflower photography competition in partnership with the Canary Wharf Group with cash prizes of up to £1,500.

Celebrations at Flushing Sailing Club for new eco racing “Bot”
Flushing Sailing Club (FSC) has become one of the first clubs in the country to use a new technological, anchor-less racing mark known as a “Mark-Set-Bot” during its busy summer racing season in the environmentally sensitive waters of Falmouth Harbour.

Explore the wonders of an English country house
If you’re a Cornish history fanatic with a love of all things beautiful, Pencarrow House and Gardens, located in between Wadebridge and Bodmin, is the perfect place to explore.

Spring Ocean Watch with AK Wildlife Cruises
Here at AK Wildlife Cruises, we are truly privileged to experience the amazing biodiversity in Falmouth Bay.








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