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Jardin de Biodiversite et Gastronomique.
Conseil, Coaching, Design, Realisation, Plan de Gestion, Entretien et Elagage.

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@_JoelAshton No doubt you'll succeed Joel 💪

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@_JoelAshton Love it Joel. Happy new years to you and yours 👍🎉🎉🍻

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@jake_fiennes With bacon or butter? Or both!

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@_JoelAshton One day Joel, one day... 💪

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

One year ago, this 1/4 acre was just an area of mown grass. I then took the topsoil off, formed some banks, made a wildlife pond, sowed the area with wildflowers & planted many native trees & shrubs. When I visited this week to carry out the first hay cut, it’s apparent that the area is now a thriving habitat for so much wildlife. Field voles & shrews inhabit the meadow, which Kestrels & Barn owls now use for hunting. Marsh Harriers have also been seen hunting along the margins.

A pair of Hares have moved into the longer grassy areas that are left uncut around the banks & margins.

Stock Doves are regular visitors to the pond for bathing/drinking, as have been Grey Wagtails, Sparrowhawks & Oystercatchers to name but a few.

The pond has been colonised by many species of insects, including a myriad of Dragonflies, Great diving beetles & Water-boatmen.

The above is in addition to the many species of Bees, Butterflies & Moths that are now benefitting from the already florally diverse wildflower meadow, and this is only very early stages.

Never let it be said that nature isn’t remarkably resilient, opportunistic & absolutely CAN bounce back, given a chance.

I will continue to manage this site (which takes very little maintenance) over the coming years and will report all my new findings.

If a single 1/4 acre plot can provide this much habitat for wildlife within the space of a year, imagine how much wildlife could benefit as a result of all of us doing our bit for nature in our own gardens/green spaces. Best bit is, you don’t even need 1/4 of an acre to achieve this 👍

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Great talking to @DaveGoulson about the insect apocalypse, how 3/4 of the world’s crops need pollinators & whether democracy can stop climate systems collapse.

Also: should you have geraniums and peonies in your garden?!

Up on @novaramedia soon:

https://t.co/H7LSweK36R

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@jake_fiennes The small critters are going to love that ruffled earth!

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@janetmanning1 @rickygervais Yeh that is a good one. He's had a few good ones but that one nailed it. Even Colbert gave him appreciative nod.

[Jake Fiennes @jake_fiennes]

A year ago the @HolkhamEstate with the @N_Rivers_Trust & Charles Rangeley Wilson embarked on a project to reconnect an ancient chalk stream back to the floodplain

This is the result, amazing what you can achieve when you work collectively allow nature some space

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@jake_fiennes @HolkhamEstate @N_Rivers_Trust @SteveReedMP @DanielZeichner @TonyJuniper Fantastic Jake

[Jake Fiennes @jake_fiennes]

There are moments throughout the year that signify particular parts of the natural cycle

This is one just moment the first emergence of the Chalkhill blue

Undoubtedly it’s been difficult but they have ability to persist

All power to the natural world!!

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@jake_fiennes That humidity is getting ridiculous.

[James Rebanks @herdyshepherd1]

The biodiversity in pastures managed this way is off the scale

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@TheaPetrou Never do well with ours. They get destroyed by insects possibly because they are trained against a wall.

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@jake_fiennes @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour A florists dreamland!

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@jake_fiennes Do you know if they are easy to grow from seed Jake? The neighbour has some tiny ones as it gets cut often but for some reason we don't have many.

[The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants @wildlifebcn]

Decades ago, Strawberry Hill farm in Beds was left to go wild, resulting in one of the highest concentrations of nightingales, turtle doves, warblers & other threatened species anywhere in the country.

Can you help us save it?

Find out more & donate at https://t.co/hJa1sFkgXJ

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@jake_fiennes @HolkhamEstate @OurNorfolkCoast @DefraGovUK Beautiful. Woul love to build something like that at a client's...

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This guy is a legend!

[Dave Goulson @DaveGoulson]

Why not 'rewild' your garden? Come for an amble about my overgrown patch to see what we can find! https://t.co/8qkwS9LTW1 via @YouTube