Sunday 18th May, 2-4pm, Belhaven Community Garden Bring you spare young seedlings to swap. Or just come and buy seedlings for your own garden. Guided tours of the community garden and orchard….
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Hydrating Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs need to get enough water to stay healthy. They can find this in the insects that they eat, in the dew or by drinking from puddles. But when there has been a lack of rain, then the ground is drier, insects can be harder to find and less natural sources of water are available.…
Tuesday 6th May, 8-9.30pm in the ‘Back of the Mack’ Last month we shared some information about Coastal Connections – our programme of community-wide engagement to tap in to local groups, activities and knowledge about our coastal environments. The project aims to harness and develop deeper connection with out seas, increase awareness of the pressures…
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Boosting Bugs
Hedgehogs should be out and about this month and will be spending their time building back up the energy they lost while hibernating, in preparation for their mating season. A hedgehog’s diet is mostly made up of creepie crawlies like beetles, caterpillars, worms, slugs, earwigs and millipedes. Top tips of ways to create areas in…
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Coastal Connections
Spring is definitely in the air and our community is buzzing with ideas. Themes are emerging and one of them is ‘Coastal Connections’. Closeness to the sea is one of the many special qualities of our location but how much do we really know and understand about the marine environments? We are fortunate to have…
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Could you be a River Guardian?
We are seeking volunteers to join a small team monitoring the health of one or more of our local burns. You will receive free online and practical training from Buglife UK in how to sample for riverfly larvae which provide a good proxy for the health of a watercourse. Riverflies are invertebrates that spend most…
Fourth Wednesday of the month, 6pm-7.30 pm, St. Anne’s Church, Dunbar Next Cafe: Wednesday 28th May Sustaining Dunbar and St Anne’s Church are now hosting an evening Climate Café that will run on the same format as the lunchtime cafe with soup (plant based) & bread – wholemeal sourdough, local organic produce. Optional: Bring cake/…
Our Pledgehog Project Officer, Jen Walker, was interviewed by Gary McGregor on his ‘Home straight with Gary McGregor’ show on East Coast FM radio on 28th February. They talked a bit about the project and what we can be doing to help hedgehogs at this time of year. Click here to listen again.
This month, now spring is in the air, hedgehogs will begin to emerge from hibernation. After a long period without food, they might have lost around a third of their body weight. This is the perfect time to start putting out supplementary food and water as they will be extremely hungry. The hedgehog’s natural diet…
This month, before hedgehogs come out of hibernation, I would like to urge you to have a look around your garden, or outdoor space, to try and make it a safer place for hedgehogs to visit when the Spring comes. Why not try and imagine that you’re a hedgehog, snuffling around at night looking for…