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Letting nature thrive at Pentire headland

Nature friendly farming and encouraging wild species...

Secrets from the garden - Kelly House and Gardens

Devon and Cornwall’s vast, rolling countryside and coastline is home to incredible country estates with typically English, rose-walled gardens; tropical havens overlooking sandy shores; and outdoor spaces created using methods and styles from across the world, brought to our doorsteps.

Ways to recycle your Christmas tree in Cornwall

Find the best way to recycle your real Christmas tree after the festive season…

Nature: Winter robin

The sight of a robin on a winter walk would not usually come as a surprise. However, on a walk back in November, seeing a group of four or five robins in a blackthorn hedgerow near Pendennis Point was quite unexpected.

Secrets from the Cornish garden - Pencarrow House and Gardens

Cornwall’s vast, rolling countryside and coastline is home to incredible country estates with typically English, rose-walled gardens; tropical havens overlooking sandy shores; and outdoor spaces created using methods and styles from across the world, brought to our doorsteps.

The National Lobster Hatchery celebrates 25 years

This year sees The National Lobster Hatchery celebrate a milestone twenty-five years since its grand opening which took place on 20th October 2000.

Explore the wonders of an English country house

If you’re a Cornish history fanatic with a love of all things beautiful, Pencarrow House and Gardens, located in between Wadebridge and Bodmin, is the perfect place to explore.

Sovay Berriman

Sovay is an artist, leader, champion of the arts as well as Director of plumbing and heating company, Plumb Maid. They were awarded the 2023/24 Visual Arts Fellowship, supported by a-n The Artists Information Company.

Local author publishes children's novel inspired by Cornish woodlands

Talking fruit, grumpy aunts and illusive space monsters? This is just a normal day for The Squirrels of Settledown Forest. 

The Nature Journal: Jesus Well

There are over two hundred Holy Wells situated in Cornwall, all named after the different Celtic saints, except for one; Jesus Well.

Wildflowers sown along new Cornish road

A volunteer group known as the Wildflower Warriors, and the Eden Project’s National Wildflower Centre (NWC) have been bringing colour and life to a major new link road being built in Cornwall with a wildflower planting scheme.

Learning from The Land Gardeners: How to feed and heal the soil in your garden and grow cut flowers throughout the year

The Cornwall Garden Society’s (CGS) February lectures will be given by Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy who established The Land Gardeners to research plant and soil health through growing, cutting and designing.

Planting of 7 hectare community woodland underway in Bodmin

You may have noticed that a woodland of trees and native shrubs have appeared at Bodmin Beacon...

Bee group invites youngsters to get involved

Launceston Beekeeping Group is encouraging young people in the community to come and get involved in a new junior section of the group.