In an online Blog article, Steve Gunn, a volunteer at the Gaia Trust's Home Farm Marsh property in Devon tells the Bumblebee Conservation Trust about his fascination for bumblebees and his search for the elusive Brown Banded and Moss Carder bees.
The Gaia Trust are looking to for a part time volunteer coordinator for our Home Farm Marsh property in northern Devon.
For more information and to apply, please email edworthy@gaiatrust.org.uk. Closing date for applications is 5pm on 15th October 2021. All applications should include a covering letter and CV
Over the last few weeks new mains water and 3-phase electricity have been installed at Bodwannick Manor Farm. These upgrades are a necessary foundation to renovating and repurposing the site into a health and wellbeing hub. Currently our visitors/volunteers mainly come from the Bodmin Hospital Fettle and Bowman mental health wards. Working in and experiencing the garden helps them in their recovery journey but currently, they have no dedicated covered space where they can make a brew, socialise and shelter from Cornwall's rather inclement weather. These new water and electricity services will help us create that space in the Bothy, an old stone-built barn within the garden. .The Gaia Trust planted 420 native broadleaved trees over three days at Treraven Farm. The small trees are no bigger than 60 centimetres tall and are protected by tree tubes, but in a decade or so we hope they will be perhaps 150 centimetres tall and beginning to look like 'real trees'.
As they grow, the trees will provide habitat and food for a range of birds and insects, and will lock up carbon to help address the climate crisis. Our small woodland is part of a bigger 'Forest For Cornwall' that aims to plant 8000hectares of new woodland in Cornwall by 2030. This project was supported by Tevi and the Woodland Trust We have just approved the upgrade of Bodwannick Manor Farm's electricity supply from single phase to 3 phase. This is a key part of our plans to restore the site as a hub for health and wellbeing activities in nature and will allow us to integrate solar panels in future. We hope the work will begin this spring as part of a wider programme that will see the conversion of an existing stone barn to a volunteer shelter with toilets and a shower connected to mains water.
We hope to have completed all this work in the Autumn so that volunteers can work in the tranquil gardens. Interested? Please contact us |
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