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 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…
read moreDo you know the history of The Howe? Visitors often ask us how the land came to be owned in trust by the village, so we thought we'd write a quick blog about it! Firstly, the name - 'The Howe' means a ridge, or hog's back, which is a pretty apt description for the hilly…
read moreBack in February we announced in the Wheatley village newsletter that we had started to talk to experts about our trustees' long-held wish to create a wildlife pond on The Howe. Well, you'll be pleased to hear that our plans have been progressing nicely over the last six months, and we're slowly getting closer to…
read moreWould you like to plant a tree* on The Howe and help biodiversity in Wheatley? Plant a Sapling Planting native species such as Cherry Plum, Bird Cherry, Hazel, Rowan, Silver Birch, Crab Apple, Whitebeam, and Alder can really help our wildlife. Each 90-120cm bareroot sapling, with a cane and tree guard (to protect it from…
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