Waste Buster wormery at Banks Road Primary School

Waste Buster wormery at Banks Road Primary School

Banks Road School now has its very own ‘Worm Hotel’, supplied by Garston Rotters Community Composting. George Pilkington, an expert on worms, came into school last year to teach Year 4 how to look after them. The children will have to keep the worms fed...
Bumblebee roundabout at Warrington – the best I’ve seen!

Bumblebee roundabout at Warrington – the best I’ve seen!

Bumblebee roundabout The future bumblebee and wildflower traffic island, looks a little tired and depressed at the moment! As most of them do! But that need not be the case….. This roundabout was a typical boring green grassed roundabout. I approached my local...
Bumblebee lawn-the best I’ve seen!

Bumblebee lawn-the best I’ve seen!

  All my articles, videos and work are funded by my teaching and sales of award winning bumblebee nest boxes, solitary bee boxes,  and wormeries. I have been watching the progress of this lawn for some time. To many people a lawn is a lawn. It has to be mown and...
Bumblebee life cycle, kids video

Bumblebee life cycle, kids video

A bumblebee’s life cycle video aimed at children, that also gets the message across to us adults! It explains the complete bumblebee life cycle and is a nice animated overview of a complex issue. Although, in reality bumblebee queens lives are  fraught with many...