Our indoor meetings will be starting again in September when Steve Everett, a wildlife photographer, and RSPB volunteer will be telling us about ‘Autumn and the Minsmere Deer Rut’, followed in October when Ian Barthorpe, Visitor Experience Officer at RSPB Minsmere...
Sir Archibald Garrod Garth Pollard, Chairman of the Woodbridge & Melton Society, unveiled a Blue Plaque to Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (1857-1936) at his former residence, Wilford Lodge, Station Road, Melton. Richard and Sabine Chalmers, the owners of Wilford...
What do we mean by using sustainable materials in the ecological crisis? Here at Orchard Barn, we use sustainable materials in everything we do, and but what exactly does this mean to us? Sustainable materials are sourced from low impact or renewable resources, have a...
200 years ago, in November 1824, a public meeting was held in the Ipswich Council Chamber to establish a Mechanic’s Institute, a membership society to spread knowledge to those who had little or no formal education. 200 years later The Ipswich Institute, as it is now...
Green Party co-leader, Adrian Ramsay, has announced the Party’s plans for an Independent Commission for Nature that would protect nature and ensure the restoration of wildlife habitats. The new watchdog would be created as part of a new “Rights of Nature”...
