As a network we’ve propagated hundreds of rare wildflower seedlings to restore community meadows for us all – but now we need your help to pot them on so they can thrive!
Whether you stay for 30 minutes or the full afternoon, your hands will make a real difference. No experience needed – just bring your energy and enthusiasm.
We’ll be making use of our new greenhouse if the weather is inclement.
We are delighted to have won the Oxford Climate Award for Biodiversity and Ecology.
Thank you everyone for your amazing contributions!
It is so important to us to be able to shine a light on the plight of our floodplain meadows and to celebrate the Nature Recovery Network - our bottom-up network of individuals & organisations who have come together to create a nature recovery network of this critically endangered habitat.
Catriona offers thanks to the network and our partners here
Have you seen our new greenhouse? This invaluable new space dedicated to our wildflower plant propagation was funded thanks to a mix of community crowdfunding, and grants from both West Oxfordshire District Council’s Community Infrastructure Fund and Westhive Fund.
We’ll be packing it full of plants in the coming weeks as the weather turns colder, but on Wednesday a jolly gaggle of network members working as part of our weekly propagation group christened it with an impromptu apple/apple juice tasting lunch!
If you’d be interested in joining in on Mondays or Wednesdays (especially Wednesday afternoons!) to help with plant propagation and meadow restoration please contact Catriona here.
Wednesday 24th September - Eynsham Society Talk
Prof George Smith talk on "Responses to Climate Change - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly". Hosted by the Eynsham Society at the Village Hall at 8pm.
Non members welcome. £4 on the door.
Friday 3rd October - Bat Survey
Join experts Sylfest Muldal and Jennie Cadd as they help us survey our local bat populations across two transects at Long Mead and in our Community Meadows down by Eynsham Lock. The surveys take 2 hours and the groups will need to be small, focused and quiet enough not to overly disturb the bats and get some good survey data! [More Info]
Saturday 11th October - Peace Oak Apple Day
The Peace Oak Association will be holding their annual Apple Day bonanza on Saturday 11th October. This promises to be a wonderful celebration of all things apple with this year's bountiful harvest! The apple press will be in action, and everyone is invited to participate in making fresh apple juice and to bring your apple based culinary creations to share … [More Info]
Saturday 18th October - Bird ID Walk
Interested in recognising common bird songs and learning more about our local and migratory birds? Seize this opportunity to learn from your local birding experts Allen Stevens and Sally Taylor during this gentle morning walk with the friendly Bird Survey Group [More Info]
Sunday 19th October - Meadows Day: planting out
Join us all as we plant out the rare wildflower seedlings to increase the biodiversity of your community meadows [More Info]
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Are you a member?
As the network continues to grow it is incurring significant costs to do what it is doing for our local nature.
Those of you who are not already members of NRN, we'd love you to join (£10 per year).
Please click here and give our local wildlife a present by becoming an NRN member! Not only will you be supporting compost/tool purchase etc. but you will get free access to all our survey workshops and discounted or no rates for workshops that we charge for.
We all look forward to sharing some time together in the Great Outdoors!
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