Our hedgehog blog is guest written by one of our community surveyors this month; just how do you know if you have hedgehogs in the garden?

July is here and the month has begun with a welcome warm spell: perfect weather for Sue to get on with the summer harvest.

Barry Jackson details his search for orchids around Gloucestershire.

Slugs, blackfly and weeds, not to mention the times when there’s not enough water, or those when there’s too much: sometimes gardening can feel like a never-ending battle against the forces of…

Bird song in a Gloucestershire valley was the soundtrack for a moment of reflection at a funeral I attended recently.

What made it all the more moving was that the spot in which the…

One my favourite things about having an allotment is that each year is different.

Over recent weeks a spell of mild weather has brought everything on early and encouraged some creatures out…

The Severn vale catchment partnership hosted by GWT and Severn Rivers Trust were really keen to get involved in the national Big Beach Clean event on the banks of the River Severn at Fretherne,…

This time last year the allotment was shivering under a blanket of snow, with sowing and planting delayed until April.

It’s now March 2019 and the plot seems raring to go, with seedlings…

The draft Environment Bill published by the Government on December 19th 2018 represents a weakening of existing environmental legislation. It will not tackle the serious environmental challenges…

Our village magazine came out in January with a front cover questioning whether we would be getting any snow this winter.

Just a few days later the heavens opened and our world turned white…