Growing carnivorous plants
One of the largest costs to upland peatland restoration is the purchase of plug plants, most often sphagnum mosses due to the number needed to restore habitats. Back in 2024 Lancashire Wildlife…
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Polytunnels are growing places
It’s been a bumper summer in the Brockholes polytunnel with Lindsay Griffiths and her fellow volunteers providing lots of wild and wonderful plants.
Wildflower growing trial inspires nature conservation from home
This summer, green-fingered volunteers have turned their houses and gardens into plant nurseries, growing native wildflowers for Lancashire Wildlife Trust, as part of a trial to involve people in…
Reduce food waste
10 tips to reduce food waste today!
Food for our insect hordes
There is an unwritten expectation that as I roam in these 30 days Wild, out on Chat Moss, that I will be a food source for many an insect.
My soul food
For Dave, the mosslands are not only a place to watch and record birds, but evoke childhood memories of watching wildlife with his father. Only ten miles away from Greater Manchester, he’s always…
Food, forestry and farming
Almost every type of farming practiced in the UK is also found in Lancashire, Greater Manchester & Liverpool City Region.
Finding food on a rainy morning
It’s Day 7 of my 30 Days Wild adventure – so it’s a cuppa, a bowl of cereal, an appreciation of my better half shopping in a changed world, then a wander onto Chat Moss.
How to grow a wildlife-friendly allotment
My Wild City Project Officer, Hilary Wood, tells us about her wildlife-friendly allotment plot. From seedlings to slugs, cabbages to caterpillars, growing vegetables and flowers in harmony with…
Grow a secret garden for butterflies!
This year’s Wild About Gardens campaign, run jointly by The Wildlife Trusts and Royal Horticultural Society (RHS), is calling on gardeners to get growing to help the UK’s falling numbers of…
Conservation grazing FAQs
Find out more about our conservation grazing project
Conservation grazing
Meet the four-legged members of our conservation team; native rare breed cattle, sheep, goats and ponies are at work across our nature reserves and beyond helping to manage habitats for wildlife.