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Friday 1st August

As from Monday 28th July River Cottage is welcoming a group of biologists from the University of Gloucestershire, led by Dr Adam Hart, (Course Leader Biosciences), to carry out a biodiversity study.  They will be looking at the plants and animals on the farm, identifying the different species and getting an idea of their abundance.  They will be writing their own blogs for our website and let you know what they have found which will also have links so that you can find out more about some of the discoveries they make.

When they've finished, they will create some information boards to go up on around the farm and some suggestions on how to keep, and increase, biodiversity.  For those of you who have yet to visit us at HQ they will also suggest ways that everyone can increase biodiversity in their gardens.  One way would be to have your own pond - but don't think you need to dig anything too big, a ceramic basin sunk into the ground (put the plug in first!) can attract all manner of plants, creepy crawlies, frogs, toads, newts and birds to your garden.

A busy day today making sure that all the pitfall traps and mammal traps were collected and that everything that could be identified had been. Once all the equipment was accounted for, Cat and Claire had a chat with Simon the gardener, giving him an overview of what they had found. Simon was able to add a fourth deer species to the list – roe deer. Although the weather has not been great (getting worse from Monday onwards) Cat and Claire have found a fair number of interesting species and have plenty of ideas for increasing diversity on the farm. If the weather improves then a second visit in late August is on the cards.

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