Category: Natural Habitats
Meet the team: Habitats Officer Nicola Ward
What is your role at St Nicks? I started working as the Habitats Officer in September 2021,within the wider Natural Habitats team. Funding from the Green Recovery Challenge Fund, along with the creation of St Nicks Green Corridors Project meant that the existing team could expand. A few of us started at the same time, […]
Heworth Holme BioBlitz results
In August this year, along with our friends at FrogLife, we carried out our second “bioblitz” of wetland meadow, Heworth Holme. St Nicks have been working on improving the habitat at Heworth Holme for nearly five years and together with our volunteers, we have transformed the site from a grassland overgrown with thick grasses and […]
Ecotherapy meet the participants: Interview with allotment volunteer Eileen
When did you first get involved with Ecotherapy at St Nicks? I remember very clearly when I started at St Nicks. It was 2011, the year I retired. I was thinking about life after retirement and saw an article in The Press. St Nicks were seeking volunteers to help plant an orchard on the nature […]
Meet the Ecotherapy Team: Discover Nature tutor Phil Taylor
What is your role at St Nicks and what training, employment and interests led you to this role? I run the Discover Nature ecotherapy group at St Nicks. I can’t remember a time when I haven’t been interested in wildlife (or Star Trek). Since university I have pursued a career in ecology as apparently Starship […]
Winter tasks: Battling the bramble and planting prep
They have braved ice, wind, sleet, snow and even floods, but our small group of conservation volunteers have persevered regardless, helping to manage our nature reserve this winter, supporting wildlife and their community during a time greenspace has become more important than ever for wellbeing. Of course there have also been plenty of sunny and […]
Adventures in the Becks
We have spent a lot of time in and around the becks this year. In a year when we’ve all had to keep our distance from one another, spending hours exploring Tang Hall and Osbaldwick Becks from the water, as well the overgrown banks, has been a thoroughly rewarding but responsible activity to keep us […]
