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Gardens of the future Click on the links on this month’s Just Three Things to be tempted by the annual Fox’s Field Picnic on August 1st, with mocktails, music and more, including tours of the forest garden. Act super locally by helping the bumblebees of your garden, and learn about how to plant for wetter winters and drier summers. Just three things for August!

Check out Transition Town Wellington's Activities and Meetups for July. From book clubs to water guardians, and green gardening to active travel, there's plenty locally to welcome you. Click the pdf. You can subscribe to the TTW newsletter here

Discover a new podcast of outrage and optimism that fires you up enough to write to Rachel Gilmour, our MP, and invite her to sign up to the National Emergency Briefing. Or even invite her to the screening in Wiveliscombe next week! Just 3 things… click on the pdf

On the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1976 summer heatwave, Met Office scientists have recorded what might be a weather forecast broadcasted in 2056, highlighting how similar events could become significantly more intense in the future. Looking back, the Reuters Climate Monitor shows, in a highly visible way, how local and global values have changed over recent history.

13 surprisingly effective ways to keep cool in the heat, give Chris Packham a hand, and help Somerset Wildlife with some citizen science... just 3 things that you can do today!

We’re after your ideas! Can you suggest an excellent podcast, book, film or website, an impactful action, or an opportunity to think or discuss ideas? One of our responses to the People’s Emergency Briefing was to produce a little flyer with suggestions of 3 Things That You Can Do, one ‘Learning’, one ‘Action’, and one ‘Considering’. It’s been almost a month now, and I’d like to produce another one, with just three more ideas. Three more grains of sand that we can all add to

There's just one week to go until the start of this year's Big Count in Somerset! From 18th - 27th June we're asking people across Somerset to help record the wildlife they spot in their local area. Once a year we ask everyone to focus in on spotting a range of species over a set period of time. There are gaps in our knowledge and we need YOUR help to fill them so we can best protect these species. You can take part with friends, as a group, club, school class, by yourself -

Listen to Andrew Norris & Pauline Homeshaw's report on "The People's Emergency Briefing" which screened on the 22nd of June, at Langford Budville Village Hall. For further information on the film, along with a map of other local screenings coming up, inlcuding ones in Wiveliscombe & Wellington, go to the National Emergency Briefing website. Attached is a recording of the show - the briefing report is in the first segment.

UPDATED, WITH CORRECT DATE: Starting at 2pm on Saturday 13th June, there will be a 24hour Bioblitz at Fox’s Field. The intention is to explore the biodiversity and record the results on the iNaturalist and Merlin apps. This event is being organised by the TTW Wildlife Group. There will be different sessions during the bioblitz. From 2pm on Saturday we will be looking at plants, butterflies, grasshoppers & other invertebrates, river-dipping & reptiles. At 9pm on Saturday there

We held a screening of "The People's Emergency" last Friday, a short film detailing the impact of the climate and biodiversity emergency upon society, as described by nine experts in fields such as Food Security, Health, Economics and Energy. The previous post contains further details about the event. In response to the screening we have developed a new page on the Welly2Wivey website. Check it out here - Emergency Response And if you missed this screening of The People's Eme

Friday 22nd May, doors open 6pm Langford Budville Village Hall Film & discussion Bar & Cafe open. Come with friends https://www.tickettailor.com/events/langfordbudvillecommunityevents/2156825 Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/9tLUnWHkGG4?feature=shared

Come for wildlife, coffee and cake at Langford Budville village hall tomorrow morning at the Welly2Wivey Wildlife Corridor cafe. We've...

Grow the Trees of the Future As the nights draw in, and September turns into October, it’s tempting to hunker inside – but this is the...

What is the most commonly recorded insect this year in the Welly2Wivey Corridor? Could it be our old friend the Red Admiral or perhaps...

If you’ve an interest in the ‘butterfly bounce back’, how to deal with potential bites, burns and stings over the summer, or how even...

Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count is now underway, and we're excited to discover which species will be counted the most. Last...

Offering a wealth of wildlife and community opportunities and news each week, Transition Town Wellington's newsletter is undoubtably one...

BIG BUTTERFLY COUNT 18th July to 10th August https://butterfly-conservation.org/events/the-big-butterfly-count-2025 Bracken bashing on...

Milverton Conservation Volunteers are back at one of our favourite places, a little slice of paradise and a barbeque as well. Please let...

Grants to support the establishment of thousands of trees, orchards and hedgerows on streets, in parks, and in community and educational...