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Our guest blogger Phil Pickin describes the sights & sounds that herald the arrival of Autumn
We were so pleased to be part of @BBCTwo's 'A Wild Year: The Fens' & for the opportunity to show how we manage our sustainable & wildlife-friendly farm in the stunning fenland environment.
Like anyone who cares about the environment, our natural world and the species which inhabit it, at Vine House Farm we find it increasingly difficult to find real conservation success stories which g
Sunflower Hearts can be fed to a large number of bird species. Read our guide to find out which birds eat them, as well as how to feed & store Sunflower Hearts.
Our guest blogger Phil Pickin discusses what have we learned from the lockdown when it comes to the environment
Our guest blogger Andrew Cooper has been admiring the increase of butterflies in Devon
Despite some real ups and downs in our weather over the last month or so – including record-breaking warm temperatures in April and unseasonably cold days in early May – we’re now well and trul
We’ve written much on the subject of wildlife gardening over the years, with a number of us at Vine House Farm and guest bloggers contributing. But here our very own Nicolas Watts gives his persona
Our guest blogger Andrew Cooper discusses the British robin and its methods of surviving winter
Our gurst blogger, Phil Pickin, looks at last year's breeding season
Our guest blogger Phil Picken looks at ways to look after wildlife in the new decade
Our position of not jumping on the band wagon with Black Friday deals, as we don’t agree with the concept of fuelling consumerism to the detriment of our planet, also has a more prosaic basis: we d
This week sees the launch of a campaign by The Wildlife Trusts called ‘Action for Insects’, with the initiative based on a report into insect decline by Professor Dave Goulson (University of Suss
Going back just a decade or so, if you didn’t live in the south-east of England then you probably wouldn't have had Ring-necked parakeets visit your garden. But now these colourful foreign invaders
The 2019 State of Nature report, written by a group of professionals from over 70 wildlife organisations, has been published and it will come as no surprise to anyone that the findings are stark. Sin
If you haven’t done so for a while, then getting feeders clean is super-important to the health and survival of the birds which visit your garden.