The Feed

Friday 25th June 2021 It has gone so quickly but already I have the first year results. I am really pleased with them. I have enjoyed...

Thursday 24th June 2021 We went back to Nailsworth to do the first day of the dry stone walling course. While everyone got on with...

Monday 21st June 2021 We attended the wildflower identification course Meadow plant identification - Cotswolds National Landscape...

Saturday 19th June 2021 Today we were able to go on a foraging course organised by the rural skills team Foraging and wild foods -...

Tuesday 9th February 2021 Today I caught up on a webinar from last week that I missed. Creating a Meadow in the Conwy Valley (Spring into...

Monday 8th February 2021 Today one of my lectures was focused on cultural ecosystem services - very difficult to define and to...

Thursday 21st January 2021 I listened to the Wildlife Trust Wildlive panel. The return of bee killing pesticides? Wild LIVE | The...

Monday 18th January 2021 As you know we always look out for fungus when we go our walking. We saw this yesterday - jelly ears. I turned...

Thursday 14th January 2021 One of our more useful New Years resolutions was to eat less meat and cut our food waste in 2021. Both of...

Wednesday 13th January 2021 Orang RAU - we made our assignment presentation today and all went well - got good feedback from the lecturer...

Tuesday 12th January 2021 Well I couldnt wait until next week and I had a few minutes so I thought I would sketch a couple of birds...

Wednesday 6th January 2021 Typical student desk! What a mess. I feel very lucky to have my university work to do - even in lockdown the...

Tuesday 5th January 2021 Lockdown again - which means no going back to university any time soon - all lectures online for the next few...

Saturday 19th December 2020 It might not look like much but this is the first time that I have been coppicing! I went out with the Holt...

Wednesday 16th December 2020 Another great day at the virtual placement - today was all about Effective Conservation. The talk in the...

Monday 14th December 2020 First day of the Hengistbury Head virtual placement. They have a great wildlife conservation work placement...

Wednesday 9th December 2020 This week we have online learning only and one of the lecturers arranged for a ranger at Crickley Hill part...

Tuesday 8th December 2020 I have three assignments to complete over Christmas and the 5 day virtual placement next week plus work that...

Thursday 3rd December 2020 The bird box went up on the farm today! It was a miserable morning but we put up about 10 boxes around Coates...

Saturday 21st November 2020 Over the last few weeks in lockdown 2.0 we decided to do more of the walks around Wokingham that we did in...