Happy Yule-time!

Its estimated that the festive period will create 1.5 million tonnes of waste in Scotland!  So there couldnt be a better time to collect your plastic bottles for the Community Wildlife Garden Greenhouse!

The greenhouse is a great chance to showcase an innovative way to re-use what we no longer need... recycling is so important for the environment - plastic for example, could take more than 100 years to decompose in landfill but no-one really knows as it hasnt been that long since plastic was invented!

I'm very excited to be working with the eco-group at New Cumnock Primary and the Nursery to collect bottles... and I cant wait to continue with this and other exciting projects throughout 2009!

All my Christmas wishes for everyone...

enjoy yourselves and please take care over the holidays,

nats
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December 2008:

The snow has arrived!!!

I've been thinking a lot about the garden, hopefully work done now will mean lots fitting into place in the New Year....

We should be getting some lovely native trees for the 'woodland' part of the garden, great for birds and insects!

The benches will hopefully be some gorgeous Scottish Larch, when its all planted up I think they will look really natural, a bit like the one below -

If you have any questions (or plastic bottles!) please feel free to get in touch,

...and take care out in the cold...

November 2008:

Its been a busy month!

Thank you again to all those who helped out at MADD 2008 back in October, we were featured in the Cumnock Chronicle this month...

Following on from MADD, work on the New Cumnock Community Wildlife Garden continues...

We are tantalisingly close to finalising the paperwork with East Ayrshire Council... I've started planning for the garden infrastructure, focusing firstly on the paths and access.  Once we have recieved quotes for this work hopefully it can get going asap!

At the same time as the paths go in I am hoping to have the base for the Plastic Bottle Greenhouse installed.  We should be ready for the greenhouse by mid January.

New Cumnock nursery will be collecting plastic bottles, and the eco-group at New Cumnock Primary are hopefully going to lead a bottle collection...

If you have 2lt bottles to recycle please send me an email - natalie.fleming@ea-cei.org.uk or ring me on 07766185987

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This week I have been out visiting some of our local primary schools - its going to be exciting to work with the children for the Big Schools Birdwatch, Eco groups, Gardening projects, Climate challenges - theres lots to come!

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The New Cumnock Habitat Network project is moving forwards, I'm definately excited by the potential of this project. 

Looking at survey results and working closely with FWAG the CEI is going to be drawing up some ideas to improve biodiversity and habitat connectivity around New Cumnock. 

The opportunity to consider a large area of New Cumnock's landscape and think about linking habitats for wildlife together will be hugely beneficial for environmental conservation around the town...

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