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Enjoy a natural tonic for your health and well being
Lockdown has now been in place since Monday 23 March and it doesn’t get any easier does it?

Lockdown wildlife love in
Its surely a time of contradiction, much of life has changed and the consequences are both dramatic and mundane at the same time.
Cheery ducks
I shall be writing more blogs for the Trust, but for starters, every year three eider ducks, two male and one female, return to Cullercoats Bay, where I’m lucky enough to take my permitted…

Our natural health service
This April, I’m ‘locked down’ in my small house in Hexham with three adults, a two-year-old toddler and a seven-week-old baby.
A Wilder Maternity Leave
Just a couple of weeks ago I was pushing the buggy round my local nature reserve. The same trip I’ve been making several times a week for several months on my maternity leave. I’d stop at the…

Look out and up
In these times of relative confinement, we are not all lucky enough to have a garden, outdoor space or green area nearby where they can take regular sojourns into relative wildness and nature-…

Restoring Ratty - a shout out to our volunteers, crumbs we miss you!
The Restoring Ratty team are really missing everyone during this difficult time. Here's a brief hello and update from Kelly Hollings.

Garden Nature Blog - Virtual vs Real Living
Whilst working at home, in between video conferencing, Zoom, Skype and Teams meetings across the virtual airwaves, I immerse myself in my little wild acre of garden. I describe it as ‘my wild…

The five-letter V word
Following Veganuary, trustee Karen Statham explains why she turned to a plant-based diet but avoids the five-letter V word.

Natural solutions to the climate crisis
Will Parsons, The Wildlife Trusts’ public affairs officer, reveals the role natural habitats play in tackling the climate crisis.