Greenman Environmental Education

Small gardening project, building a small garden wall from old stone setts

£10 over 100 bands Bolton town centre something for everyone give us a shout esp since your mate and fellow Boltonian Mark Radcliffe if playing
Share the love of our great town and enjoy a community, non for profit music festival to bring the smiles back to Bolton

This is an interesting read

Is Common Hogweed Poisonous? 2020 update: the following is a quote of mine that I use when teaching people who come on my foraging courses. It brings a smile and helps people to understand the hogweeds. “The difference b…

Coronavirus: should we be afraid of bats? - Geographical Magazine Conservationists are fighting back against misleading claims when it comes to bats

Sgt Simpson: This is really important and I would like you all to share this message.

You'll see adverts "We're cheaper than a skip" and people appealing on social media for the best prices to get rid of their household rubble.

If you are paying less than about £140 for your rubbish to be taken away from your house, it is quite simply going to end up in a field and ruining our countryside.

No one can dispose of it for less, as council processing fees have to be paid.

Please play your part and only use companies that can show you their waste carrier licences and can evidence where the rubbish it is going to be disposed of properly.

PLEASE SHARE

Another night, another pond bat survey...

It's amazing what you come across whilst carrying out a bat survey ..this is a first for me and credit to Fiona Parker for spotting it , a resting Southern Hawker Dragonfly

Second evening of Kirklees Valley Millponds survey.. not raining tonight..heard Daubies and Pips already

Been busy this week rebuilding a section of footpath at Burrs Country Park with the Bury Volunteer Rangers and building a post and rail fence at Philip's Park

Protecting hedges boosts bat numbers Leaving hedgerows untouched offers an important lifeline for night-time biodiversity, such as insect-eating bats, a study says.