Sarah Chave

(picture courtesy of BBC website) This year World Rivers Day will be celebrated by millions of people on Sunday 27th September. I will be celebrating with the Guardians of the River Chelt at Rivers and Us - conversations around the Chelt and Severn in the Wilson Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham on Saturday 26th, and near my home on Sunday 27th, when I will spend time with a tiny stream that eventually finds it way to the Severn Estuary. The Chelt - photo courtesy of Notes from the...

This weekend I had the privilege of going for a beautiful walk near Horton in South Gloucestershire. Wild garlic carpeted the woodland - a veritable sea of fragrant leaves and delicate white flowers. Their pungent scent was ever present and we were looking forward to tasting some homemade pesto later! My thoughts also turned to a talk I had recently attended - a conversation between Toppings bookseller, Mathew, and the internationally acclaimed forest ecologist Suzanne Simard . In her...

Bryn Tip , the site of the former Bryn Navigation Colliery near Neath and Port Talbot in South Wales has been selected as one of Wales's first Naturfa sites (photo courtesy of Neath Port Talbot Council). Naturfa is Welsh for 'a place for nature', and Bryn Tip has been recognised as a haven for wildlife as well as a site contributing to the creation of 'nature corridors' which support the movement of species across Wales. The shrubs which have become established in this former...