You might have noticed that we rather love wildlife ponds on The Howe! As well as adding beauty to landscapes, wildlife ponds are vital habitats for many animals and wetland plants. They're also an important fresh drinking water source for birds, hedgehogs, deer and foxes. And if you look carefully around our 4 ponds you…
read moreFirstly, we'd like to thank our neighbours on Windmill Lane for their patience over the last 2 years - and for bearing with us through the difficulties we have been experiencing with delays to our DEFRA rural payment capital grant applications. However we do now have the good news, which hopefully most readers will have…
read moreWell the storms this weekend meant the weather outside was certainly not 'delightful' for The Howe Trust's hedge planting day, but we both accomplished our mission and had a great time! Our band of plucky volunteers, together with our Duke of Edinburgh students from Wheatley Park School, and help from the
read moreThis Christmas was the 5th year of running The Howe Trust Hamper Campaign - how time flies! Every year this important initiative helps some of the most vulnerable families in our community, by providing the ingredients for a Christmas Day meal. But this is only made possible by the assistance of many amazing people within…
read moreHere on The Howe we've often been asked why, when we chop down trees or trim back scrub, we don't tidy up afterwards. And why, we leave logs and cuttings around in piles rather than removing them - or having bonfires. We also occasionally hear of visitors who are concerned about our not mowing and…
read moreThe Howe Trust have a NEW opening for a Social Media Volunteer. This role is open to all - but could suit a student or young person interested in business studies or marketing. Or interest a budding zoologist or nature lover. The commitment is around an hour a week and can also easily be done…
read moreThe exceptional rain of the last few days has meant the 3 ponds in Tombs Field have gone from huge muddy holes with puddles in the bottom to now being full to capacity. Great news for our resident and future wildlife - but we hadn't expected them to fill up quite so rapidly! We have…
read moreIt's easy sometimes for us all to feel a little overwhelmed by fear for the future of wildlife and our planet. Doom scrolling on social media can be very stressful. As can switching on the TV news or reading the paper. So we thought we'd share this really uplifting article from The Guardian with you.…
read moreJune and July are the months that bring both wildflowers and weeds to The Howe. One plant that causes much controversy is Ragwort. There are 3 varieties of Ragwort, all of which look fairly alike and which grow to around 90cm and bears clusters of yellow, daisy-shaped flowers in summer. The plant is quite pretty…
read moreThe Howe is all about providing an accessible green space for the community, alongside supporting and boosting the land’s value to the natural world. And having a wildlife pond at The Howe has been an ambition for many years. Background to The Ponds Project In the last 100 years the UK has lost over half…
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