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About the Urban Wildling

I started my jottings and experiments as The Urban Wildling during lockdown when I started wondering what I could do in my suburban garden to improve our planet, just a little.

When I realised we had as much land in our back gardens in the UK as there is in National Parks, I realised I wanted to write a book about what we could collectively achieve.

Then I received a small amount of grant money to create some packs to encourage children to plant wildflowers. to attract bees and butterflies (only they thoughts 'butts' was much funnier).

About Me

Bees love Borridge (and Bloggage)

The story of 'Butts and Bees'

Last year I was fortunate enough to join Jenny Andersson from Really Regenerative for her signature 'Power of Place' course on placemaking. I'd been struggling for a while to get people to engage with the idea of 'urban rewilding' and been looking for the right way to get people engaged and involved in this idea I have become to passionate about. Of Jenny's many frameworks and her extraordinary experiences working with 'place' all over the world and the unique social and eco

Helena Jevons

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The Edge Effect: Why Nature's Richest Life (and Our Best Ideas) Happen Where Worlds Meet

Walk to the place where a wood gives way to a meadow and stop there a moment. You are standing in the busiest 'real estate' in the whole landscape. Behind you, the shade and structure of the trees; ahead, the light and flowers of the grassland; and right here, in the seam between them, a riot of life that belongs fully to neither; more species, more activity, more sheer biological excitement than in either habitat on its own. Ecologists have a name for that seam. They call it

Helena Jevons

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The Carbon Underfoot: How a Rewilded Garden Compares to a Conventional One

It's a lovely idea, and you'll see it repeated everywhere: let your garden go wild and it becomes a mighty sponge for carbon, quietly doing its bit against climate change. Like most lovely ideas about the environment, it's partly true, partly oversold, and a great deal more interesting once you look at what's actually going on in the soil and the stems. So let's do that honestly. How does a rewilded garden compare to a conventional one when it comes to carbon and where does t

Helena Jevons

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The top ten things you can do to rewild your garden

When I started on my rewilding journey I didn't really know where to start - although I felt very strongly that it might be with a wildlife pond and covering my fences - which proved to be true, but it's a question I get asked a lot - so here's the actual scientific answer.... NB: Please note that this advice is for a 'typical' UK suburban garden. For other countries please use my 'how should me garden grow' app here which will personalise it based on your own region. We tend

Helena Jevons

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The Wild Between: Habitat Corridors and the Connected City

There is a hedgehog somewhere near you, right now, nose to a fence panel. On the other side lies everything it needs; beetles, a mate, a dry corner to nest; and between the two, six feet of larch-lap and a concrete gravel board. To us it is a boundary. To the hedgehog it is the edge of the world. This is the quiet tragedy of the modern town: not that we have banished nature, but that we have chopped it into pieces too small to live in. Rewilding the city is often imagined as

Helena Jevons

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No Mow? So What?

Introduction: In recent years, a growing movement advocating for more environmentally friendly lawn care practices has gained momentum across the United Kingdom. One such initiative that has captured widespread attention is "No Mow May." Originating from a simple idea to let lawns grow wild for the month of May, this campaign has evolved into a powerful force for promoting biodiversity, supporting pollinators, and fostering a deeper connection with nature. In this blog post,

Helena Jevons

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Design for Wildness: The Permaculture Principles as a Guide to Rewilding Your Garde

I was lucky enough to do my Permaculture design Certificate in 2012 at OrganicLea in Chingford. This was when the realisations that eventually led me to set up ''The Urban Wildling'' began and when my garden became and experimentation zone of lasagne beds of carboard and old clothing, piles of logs for 'hugulkultur' and beds of nettles for fertiliser, pesto & butterflies. Needless to say I was not entirely popular with my neighbours.... Permaculture and rewilding are close co

Helena Jevons

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BABY LOSS FEATHERS

A WAY TO REMEMBER

I started making clay feathers modelled on different british bird feathers I'd collected after my second miscarriage. To start with one for the first child I had lost and one for the second, but then I was drawn to keep making them and offer them to others for children who were, but never were.

I'm delighted that the government has now provided death certificates (for baby losses after November 2018) Request a baby loss certificate - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) but my feathers are still on offer.

I love making them and can personalise them in several ways for you, with ribbons, names or colours.

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BUTTS AND BEES BOXES FOR SCHOOLS

WELCOME

About the Urban Wildling

Bees love Borridge (and Bloggage)

The story of 'Butts and Bees'

The Edge Effect: Why Nature's Richest Life (and Our Best Ideas) Happen Where Worlds Meet

The Carbon Underfoot: How a Rewilded Garden Compares to a Conventional One

The top ten things you can do to rewild your garden

The Wild Between: Habitat Corridors and the Connected City

No Mow? So What?

Design for Wildness: The Permaculture Principles as a Guide to Rewilding Your Garde

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BABY LOSS FEATHERS

BUTTS AND BEES BOXES FOR
SCHOOLS