Community Orchards in Adur
This guest post is by Jenni Cresswell from Brighton Permaculture Trust which has been planting orchards with communities across Sussex for over 15 years. Traditional orchards are being lost from our landscapes at worrying rates. We’re doing something to curb that trend. We believe that as well as the usual benefits from trees –...
Rewilding an Urban Garden
Local author Gerry Maguire Thompson is giving a talk for the Shoreham Society about his book, Rewilding an Urban Garden: An Illustrated Diary of Nature’s Year. This tells the story of twelve months in his Shoreham garden, and the extraordinary wealth of creatures that live or visit there. The book is beautifully designed and...
Buckingham Park Nature Boards
On Wednesday 2nd August an unveiling event was held in Buckingham Park for two Nature Boards, one by the children’s playground and a second one near Apron Community Garden. This was the culmination of work by Friends of Buckingham Park with funding from Transition Together and Adur District Council and the input of Sussex Wildlife...
By Poplar Demand, the Tree is Saved!
The Shoreham Poplar Front’s campaign to save a huge poplar tree has eventually succeeded. The tree is on the site of the old demolished Civic Centre next to the Duke of Wellington pub on Brighton Road. The planning application by Hyde Homes for a large housing development that the Council approved at the beginning of …...
Growing for our Children’s Future
The Apron Community Garden is a creative community project in Buckingham Park. Its founder, Lis Long, will be giving a talk for the Shoreham Society in April explaining the ideas behind it and how it is helping local people to enjoy gardening, learn new skills and develop their creativity. The garden was conceived during the …...
CPRE Sussex Festival of Spring
The Festival of Spring is a series of online talks by inspirational people who love nature and the Sussex countryside. It is being organised by CPRE Sussex, the countryside charity. On various Tuesday and Wednesday evenings throughout February and March 2023, the CPRE’s Festival of Spring talks provide a complementary theme to the...
Sussex Dolphin Project
The Sussex Dolphin Project, launched in 2018 as a project of the World Cetacean Alliance, is committed to protecting dolphins through Research, Awareness and Education. Its citizen science programme gives the community a chance to get involved and help them to study marine mammals. The Shoreham Society is hosting a Zoom talk given by the...
Weald to Waves
On Friday 23rd September, I attended an excellent presentation about Weald to Waves by Libby Drew, Knepp Estate Rewilding Director and James Baird, an environmentally committed Sussex farmer. The speakers discussed the creation of a safe corridor for nature from Ashdown Forest to Climping Gap. The project will protect the most...
Retrofit and Your Home
Is the cost- of-living crisis making you yearn for lower bills, but struggling to choose what to do? Perhaps you are thinking of extending or remodelling and want to understand why having a whole house plan can help avoid unintended consequences? Or are you wondering if your home is one of Britains’ “leakiest homes”, and …...
An Electrifying Tale?
So we are in an “energy crisis”. How did huge energy price hikes and the prospect of power cuts come about? Could renewable energy have more of a role in preventing this happening in future? Why are my costs rising when I’m with a green energy provider just using electricity? Here is a potted history …...
