Churchstanton 2030 - Wild Spaces
Embrace Rewilding: Transform Your Garden into a Haven for Wildlife
In an age where urbanisation and climate change are rapidly encroaching on natural habitats, every green space counts. Rewilding your garden is more than just a trend; it's a powerful step toward restoring biodiversity and fostering a harmonious ecosystem right at your doorstep.
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Formed in May 2023, our Wild Spaces group aims to encourage residents to take every opportunity to increase biodiversity in our Parish.
We launched Somerset Wildlife Trust’s “Wilder Gardens” scheme, early in 2024 and will hopefully secure Wider Community status for Churchstanton over the coming months. A big thank you to all those who have already secured their plaque, we still need a few more people to get involved, more info below and the application form is here.
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Our small but enthusiastic Wild Spaces core group is looking to expand so that we can organise some more fun, community projects in the coming year. Whatever your age, if you are creative, passionate about our natural world and would like to help us make a difference, we’d love to hear
from you. If you'd like to join us, make new friends and get involved please email Trisha: trishacomrie@gmail.com
Blackdown Food and Craft Fayre
The Wild Spaces Group and BH Eco Hub also had a joint stall at the Blackdown Food and Craft Fayre in Churchinford on 25th August 24. The Wild Spaces Group gave away books, sold packets of wild flower and yellow rattle seeds to raise funds for future projects. The BH Eco Hub sold charcoal, biochar and £1.00 packs of fresh organic vegetables / herbs harvested the day before, to raise money to buy seed for the Autumn and next year.
Churchstanton School Fete
At the Churchstanton School Fete, youngsters made wild seed bombs, attached their Wishes for Nature on a Wish Tree and took home pebbles they had coloured with nature-inspired motifs.
Books on gardening for all ages were also available for free.
Monster dragonfly workshop at Churchstanton Primary School
We organised a monster dragonfly workshop at Churchstanton Primary School towards the end of the summer term with local artist and sculptor, Alistair Lambert and facilitated by the school’s art teacher, Karina Holt. Materials were from a scrap store and showed the children what could be done with recycled materials.
Great fun was had by all!
No Mow May
Young, budding local artists provided us with some great No Mow May posters which were displayed around the Parish to encourage people to let wildflowers grow, thus increasing biodiversity and providing food for pollinators.