Community Plot @ Whetstone Stray Allotments

YouTube video by Dave Goulson No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees.

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

Today from 2pm, The Community Plot at Whetstone Stray Allotments, Holden Road N12 7DX is opening up a space for grief and creative art making with clay.
The natural clay will make a vessel that returns to the Earth.
Free to attend.
Drop-in
Hosted by Yaya @brog.de.mer

Free #art #making #clay event - using clay to express grief - make a piece to return to the earth - this Saturday at 3pm on the Community Plot at Whetstone Stray Allotments, Holden Road, N12 7DX #Barnet

Dandelion flower honey - a great substitute for vegans or anyone who is immuno-suppressed and so can't eat honey. You need fifty flower heads - widely available now so you won't be taking too many from the pollinators

So far, we have sown nasturtiums, sweet peas, sunflowers and cosmos. Unfortunately the sweet peas we sowed in Autumn mostly didn't make it through the winter, but we've sown more...

Nine easy flowers to grow from seed Want to grow flowers from seed, but worry it'll be difficult? Discover the easiest flowers to grow, so you can sow the seeds of a flower-filled summer.

Fill your garden with flowers for pennies!

The cheapest way to a flower-filled garden this summer is to grow your own from seed – and these are the easiest flowers to grow from seed.

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❗FREE TICKETS❗A limited number of free spots are available for this year’s Climate Sisters & Climate Siblings showcase! 🌍
Use code ✨ CLIMATESISTERS ✨ to get yours

📅 April 3
⏰ 5:30 PM
📍Rich Mix

Expect art, film, food & climate action!
Grab your ticket now: www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

All the community garden drop in and training opportunities from @Barnet Council for the coming year.

If you are thinking of starting a community garden in a #Barnet library, there is free training through #Barnetcouncil for organisations who want to start community gardens, as well as lots of options if you just want to drop in on a community garden.

A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 mins between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or in your garden or community green spaces could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
#SaveTheBees

Thank you for the tomatilo seeds! Do you sow them indoors now, like tomatoes?

You must go and visit. You can do a day safari but if you stay in the glamping camp you can also have an amazing bath open to the sky!

The annual #incredibleedible #Barnet seed swap kicks off the growing year with the opportunity to try growing something new and unexpected!

Good timing, as we're planning to do this, thank you.

Spending time outside - whether it's a short walk, wildlife spotting, or playing among the trees - can help boost mood, build confidence, and spark creativity. 🌳

Looking for ways to connect little ones with nature? 👣 Explore our resources👉 https://buff.ly/4jMycw7

#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳

Hibernating bumblebee uncovered in soil

If you discover a hibernating bumblebee while digging in your garden or allotment this winter, try to avoid disturbing her, and loosely re-cover her so she can hit the snooze button until spring. More advice from @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social at www.bumblebeeconservation.org
#gardening #SaveTheBees 🐝

Must complete our \heritage seed order - always takes us ages to choose!

Thanks for sharing, I've reserved a ticket.

Food vs. Nature: the role of community food growing Does food growing and wildlife habitat have to be in competition? Or, can our limited urban green spaces support both food and nature?

Check out "Food vs. Nature: the role of community food growing"
I'm speaking - obviously suggesting its not a conflict 🧐- do join us
@incediblebarnet.bsky.social
@sustainweb.org
@gardenorganicuk.bsky.social
@permaculturemag.bsky.social
#Community_growing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/food-vs-na...?

YouTube video by FOSSILHEADS: CLIMATE CRISIS CABARET! Sick of Consumeristmas? MERRY CRISIS! by Fossilheads (slightly better sound)

Happy #SocialistSunday to all who celebrate! We made this funny Christmas song to remind ourselves we can show our loved ones we care about them in ways that feel more appropriate to the times we're living in than just hitting the usual overspend button youtu.be/12FyJyMBt90?...

There are some plants that I remove before they get too big and tough or numerous. At #Knepp #rewilded project, this impulse to intervene was referred to as 'the call to care' - a call which we humans must try to manage sustainably. Here are the Alkenet leaves on the compost. I drown the roots.

At this time of year a lot of people talk about 'clearing' and 'tidying up' but we like to let things mellow and allow for forage and shelter ...

So happy you're here!

Here's to you, women of Ireland!

We also learned how many 20th #Finchley #Cubs can circle this wonderful ancient hollow oak = six + one inside the hollow! This tree is on the Allotment path - Totteridge & Whetstone end - it is over 300-years-olf and is one of four old oaks that would have been boundary trees.

We enjoyed the lively company of the 20th #Finchley #Cubs today on our Nature Walk & Litter Pick - happy to see very little litter on public paths through #Whetstone #Stray Allotments & on the #Dollis #Valley #Greenwalk Lots of great questions and spots including a tiny woodmouse and a kestrel.

oh wow, so happy for you. Well deserved.

Fantastic #free #festive event at Friern #Barnet Library on Sunday 1st December with Finchley's Eco Show and Tell - includes craft workshops - make your own Christmas gifts!

Fabulous! Will be sending this as Christmas greeting this year.