Composer, musician, environmentalist, brewer.
Creative Director at Biggtime Productions, writing & producing music for film, TV, games, radio.
Stage @kewfete
Just how anybody could look at the spring flowering trees and grasses, the abundant wild flowers and hear the exuberant birdsong and think let’s build all over it, is completely beyond my comprehension. #saveourcountryside
Britain has lost around half its hedgerows since the Second World War. The wildlife that depended on them has followed a similar trajectory. 🌿
The old field boundary — a strip of blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose, and elder two to five metres wide between cultivated ground — was not wasted agricultural space. It was a functioning ecological system that maintained pollinators, pest predators, and farmland birds across centuries of working land.
Each hedgerow is a nesting corridor for grey partridge and skylark, a foraging habitat for brown hares and hedgehogs, a site for solitary bee colonies, and a windbreak for the crops alongside it.
The field cultivated to its very edge gives the maximum return this season. It removes the populations of beneficial insects, farmland birds, and small mammals on which stable long-term production depended.
The field with a hedgerow yields a few percent less per cultivated hectare — but remains productive across decades without compensatory chemical inputs. The documented declines in grey partridge, lapwing, and skylark across the British agricultural landscape since the 1970s are directly linked to field consolidation and hedgerow removal.
Practical equivalents for the garden or smallholding:
- A strip of wildflower meadow at least one metre wide at the plot boundary
- A clump of nettles in a shaded corner as a habitat base for red admiral, small tortoiseshell, and peacock butterflies
- A native mixed hedge of blackthorn and hawthorn in place of post-and-wire fencing
- A section of uncut grass between rows of fruit trees
#HedgerowHabitat #FarmlandWildlife #NativeHedge #GardenWildlife
Good grief, this horrendous: a large warehousing scheme which would uproot more than 10,000 trees is set to get approval. The three new warehouses in Carrington, Trafford, would destroy habitats for birds, bats, hedgehogs and amphibians.
https://t.co/z6SBYLTE2I
Spraying one dandelion with Roundup can kill over 100 bees.
The flower doesn't die instantly. Bees will keep visiting it for days, taking the poison back to their nests and hives.
Never spray dandelions in spring and summer.
They're one of the first major food sources for emerging pollinators.
Let them bloom or remove them by hand.
PRS Signature models inject your playing with artist-driven design. Far from subtle variations on standard models, these instruments represent years of close collaboration with our artists!
@JVMonte2 House of the Rising Sun
Bad Moon Rising
Bark at the Moon
Moon River
Here Comes The Sun
Sunshine of your Love
Sunshine on Leith
Don't let the Sun, Go down on Me
Huber Breese Music is celebrating 54 years of serving the musical needs of the Fraser, MI community May 14-16! Enjoy exclusive savings, live music, and on Saturday, May 16 meet with PRS Sales Rep Matt Hallam to explore a range of PRS instruments.
Designed for full, aggressive tone, Tremonti pickups mix covered design and alnico magnets with uncovered design and ceramic magnets. Available in this Charcoal Mark Tremonti model or aftermarket in our West Street East accessories store.
@LBRuT_Help@LBRUT So, still nothing to say for yourselves @LBRUT@LBRuT_Help ?
Failure to meet your own service levels. Failure to respond to a resident who pays you a huge sum every month? Utterly unacceptable.
@LBRuT_Help@LBRUT It's hugely disappointing to report that @LBRUT have been entirely unresponsive. Nothing whatsoever from the traffic and engineering team responsible for cutting through my internet cables. Nothing from the council's main complaints email service either. And it's over two weeks.
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen.
📍my favourite oak #lakedistrict