March 2024 update By Richard Astle Work across the John Clare Countryside to address the climate and biodiversity crisis continues to accelerate, with active projects in all parishes and with more landowners and farmers involved than ever before. Key highlights include: A busy planting season, with hedges, trees, bulbs and wildflowers planted. New nature reserves … Read more
Thank you nature grants of more than £25,000 have been awarded to parishes to start work on John Clare Countryside nature recovery plans Parish councils in the John Clare Countryside have been awarded the cash to take forward 40 projects designed to help nature recover. The projects are part of ambitious plans to create a … Read more
We now have a number of videos on the site as part of a series aimed at demonstrating the benefits to nature of making your garden a little more wildlife friendly. The videos are being compiled as part of the John Clare Countryside Vision project by the team that has taken on the task of … Read more
Plans to introduce a nature recovery plan across the area are moving forward. As we near the end of 2020 Langdyke chair Richard Astle reports on the progress so far and looks ahead to next year … There are plans to say a big Thank you to nature across John Clare Countryside in 2021. … Read more