100 Nature-Friendly Gardens

Nature is having a hard time. One of the best things we can do to help is to put our gardens to work to recover some of what we’ve lost. In 2024 we had in excess of 100 households sign up to be part of the Alwoodley 2030 100 Nature Friendly Gardens Club:

By joining, they received:

• four free seasonal bundles to help take small actions in their garden.  This bundle contained items around the important themes:

  1. Food (e.g. bird feeders, native fruit trees, seasonal flower bulbs and seeds, hedgehog food, berry bearing shrubs and plants, etc)

  2. Water (e.g. bird bath, hedgehog water tray, water butt, pond, bog area).

  3. Connectivity (e.g. items to help connect up gardens, create wildlife corridors, increase tree canopy and trees to get you started).

  4. Wildlife Friendly Management (e.g. advice on how to create leaf piles, compost areas, organic pest control, wormery, green manuring and some supplies to get you started).

  5. Shelter (e.g. hedgehog houses, bug hotels, nesting boxes, log piles, bat boxes and advice on best places to let grass grow longer, build rock/stone log piles).

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• a sticker to display in their garden to share that they’re part of the club and encourage others to sign up.

• a certificate for fulfilling their pledge to take one action each season to make their garden nature-friendly.

• opportunities to connect, share, learn, garden, construct, and rewild along with others who have signed up.

• a potential nomination for year-end nature-friendly garden awards!