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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 4h
Ambitious campaign to purchase The Rothbury Estate in Northumberland receives its biggest boost to date as £30m deadline looms. Help get the campaign over the line... www.nwt.org.uk/news/largest...
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Largest appeal of its kind takes giant stride towards finish line with £5.5m donated in a week | Northumberland Wildlife Trust
Ambitious campaign to purchase The Rothbury Estate in Northumberland receives its biggest boost to date as £30m deadline looms
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spending time in the presence of one of Ireland's extremely rare ancient trees, like this hulking oak near Bandon with local man Dan Holland, are for me life highlights. But it's always bittersweet, tempered by the knowledge that such stupendous beings were once commonplace. We have lost SO much.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 5h
The four lowest years on record for Antarctica's sea ice have all occurred in the past four years. Area falls 1m sq kmshort of long-term average, as scientists warn of a ‘now problem’ #climatecrisis Story by @readfearn.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Antarctic winter sea ice falls to third-lowest level on record as scientists warn of ‘now problem’
Coverage levels fall a million square kilometres short of the long-term average, with global heating likely driving losses
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 4h
Please say no to pesticides and herbicides. Cocktails of these chemicals in fields, gardens, parks, verges and community spaces are poisoning bees, birds, hedgehogs, butterflies, beetles, frogs, damselflies and more, while running off into rivers too. Let's give nature a chance!
Butterfly perched on white flower on bramble
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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 21h
This destruction is only the beginning. Seizing land, walling off communities, cutting wildlife off from their only water source, pumping billions of gallons of groundwater without permits, bulldozing archaeological sites, all done in violation of our nation’s most important protections.
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First segment of steel border wall goes up in Texas' Big Bend region
The first section of a 30-foot-high steel bollard wall has gone up in the Big Bend region, environmental activists said Wednesday. While construction is
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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Live in the Western Isles, Orkney or Shetland and fancy planting some #FreeTrees?🌱🌳 We have a Free Tree Pack especially for you, a tailored selection of local provenance saplings that can handle local conditions! Have space & want like to get involved? Simply email crofting@woodlandtrust.org.uk
Sgoil an t-Òib, Primary School, Levenburgh, Isle of Harris, planting Tree Pack. Credit: WTML
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Three days to go for @northwildlife.bsky.social to raise £30M to buy the Rothbury Estate. Impressively, they've secured over £27M in donations & pledges. But that still leaves a shortfall. I can only hope they're given more time by the seller. Or that he waives the difference. You can chip in here:
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exciting update from @saveourwildcats.bsky.social 🐾 The project is celebrating 50 wildcats released in the Scottish Highlands! Releases have taken place across the @cairngormsconnect.bsky.social landscape since 2023 and results are promising, with births in the wild for three consecutive years.
Wildcat partially concealed amongst grass and other greenery looking toward cameraAbernethy Site Manager Ben Oliver Jones with James Shooter, Rewilding Europe, and members of the Saving Wildcats team including Helen Senn, RZSS Head of Conservation and Science Programmes and Saving Wildcats project lead, Louise Hughes, all facing camera smilingSaving Wildcats team member in the outdoors at a high point overlooking a Loch and Pine forest, holding up aerial
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By leaving deadwood in community spaces and woods, land managers & councils can provide homes for all sorts of insects, mosses, fungi & lichens, as well as vital bird & bat nesting sites. It's also easy #climateaction⁠, as deadwood locks up carbon for years! #wildlife #nature #biodiversity
A dead tree left to rot down slowly in parkland near to a river
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 9h
Only today to go - please help if you can...
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Splendid news that Eyam Moor has been gifted to the nation by its owners. 600 acres will now be managed by @derbyswildlife.bsky.social.
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Derbyshire Wildlife Trust secures its largest landmark site with a massive 600-acre boost for nature in the Wild Peak | Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
The Trust has secured its largest single land acquisition for nature and people to date with 600 acres at Eyam Moor. The site represents one of the most significant landscape-scale nature recovery opp...
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Worried about food shortages and rising prices in 2027? Growing some of your own food could help! Our quick guide to veg growing is simple to follow, and focuses on some of the easiest crops to grow, from peas to potatoes to pumpkins 🥬🥔🧄 buymeacoffee.com/lgspace/e/52...
Hand holding a bunch of beetroot
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EarthworkBec @earthworkbec.bsky.social · 19h
Or chip in via the match-fund page, to double your donation this month (only 1 day to go!). www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth... It all ends up supporting the main Wildlife Trusts Rothbury Estate appeal 🦦
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Rothbury Estate Match Appeal | The Wildlife Trusts
The Rothbury Estate is more than a beautiful place. It's 3,800 hectares of rivers, woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and open moorland, where wildlife still has the chance to thrive at a scale rarely seen in Britain today. Here, otters play in the River Coquet's tributaries. Merlins hunt across the open hills. Heath goldsmith beetles shimmer amongst the heather. Together, river, land and sky create a landscape rich in wildlife, history and potential. But we have one chance to secure it for nature. This August and September, every gift will be doubled, up to £700,000.
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The Scottish Rewilding Alliance @scotrewilding.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nature is our ally in dealing with climate shocks, says MSP Ariane Burgess in a new piece for @scotnational.bsky.social – but delays, scarce funding and a fear of difficult conversations continue to hold us back. Read Ariane’s full op-ed here: www.thenational.scot/politics/265...
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It's a crucial week in the Scottish Parliament for rewilding
COMMUNITIES across Scotland are directly in the path of violent, relentless climate shocks.
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British Hedgehog Preservation Society @hedgehogsociety.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As the leaves change colour & fall from the trees - don't over-tidy them! 🍂 🍃 They play an important role in the life cycles of many species - from butterflies to #hedgehogs! 🦋 🦔 💤 If you must tidy gardens, leave a designated patch, edge or corner untouched for #wildlife 💚 📹 Ian Mears & BHPS
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Channel 4 News last night on harvest meltdown. www.channel4.com/news/uk-harv...
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UK harvest ‘disappointing’ after extreme weather, say farmers
This year's harvest has been described as "disappointing" for farmers across the UK after a summer of extreme weather.
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 22h
By providing more spray-free rough grassland and native hedgerow habitats for their prey, we can help barn owls survive and thrive. The regular presence of these beautiful birds is usually a good indicator of a healthy environment 🌿 #wildlife #rewilding #biodiversity
Barn owl looking towards the camera
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Steve Jackson @atcherleyons.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excellent news, but the match-funding appeal is just part of the larger campaign to raise £30 million. The latest on that is: “£27,407,055 has been raised including pledges”. Really hope the remaining money will be donated in the next few days! 🤞
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Donate to Secure The Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts
Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trees release compounds called phytoncides which can enhance mood and improve sleep. Phytoncides may even help prevent cancer. And native trees are brilliant for all sorts of wildlife - so let’s plant more trees, and cherish those we have already! 🌳 littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/nat...
Acorn and oak leaf
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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 14/09/2026
The GCSE in Natural History has been long brewing - and here are our thoughts on it. This qualification is especially pressing now, in the light of the climate catastrophe and a crisis of mental well-being among young people. Doing fieldwork and being closer to nature can only benefit society. 🧪🌏🍃
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Eva Lilliekvist @evalilliekvist.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is a great account 🌳🌼🐝 🤗
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Every month of 2026 has been warmer than average in the UK. #climatecrisis
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UK weather: Temperatures to hit 26C in burst of late September warmth
Temperatures are expected to rise well above the late September average on Tuesday with a very warm night to follow, as Simon King explains.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 29/09/2026
This former golf course has been turned into a nature reserve 💚 Sandilands is designed to help nature thrive. The reserve is expected to provide important habitat for birds and forms part of the internationally important East Coast Flyway, one of Europe's major migration routes.
Two long-legged avocets with white chests and black heads and beaks at the edge of water, with four tiny white fluffy chicks following in their wakeAn aerial view of a former golf course at the edge of the coast, with a strip of beige sand on one side, and many ponds, pathways, wetland and marshes within it under a cloudy skyA view of long thistley grass under a hazy blue sky surrounding a vast pondAn adult avocet with long legs, a white body, black head and beak leading three fluffy grey chicks behind it along the water's edge with a scrubby bank rising behind them
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Let’s see much more of this UK-wide! Swifts need the help due to loss of nesting sites. And homes that help wildlife also mean more nature, which means improved health & well-being. Great work by @derbyswildlife.bsky.social #NatureRestoration #biodiversity www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New homes for swifts installed across Chesterfield
Five neighbourhoods have welcomed 70 new homes for the under-threat migratory bird.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Eco/climate/creative folks! I would so recommend joining this community. As well as connecting with others engaged in creative work in response to the Earth crisis, there is access to many excellent resources developed by @bridgetmck.bsky.social This is needed now more than ever. Do join us!
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Eoghan had an extraordinary vision [to rewild] a West Cork rainforest. He deserves great praise not only for making this dream a reality, but also for inspiring others to take an interest in biodiversity, nature restoration, and ecology." A great honour to be September's Cork Person of the Month!
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
82% of Britons say protecting nature is important to them, new polling by @moreincommonuk.bsky.social shows “You don’t often get that degree of consensus” on any issue, says @luketryl.bsky.social - speaking at an event at Labour Party Conference with the heads of the big nature NGOs
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James Flynn @jamespflynn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We need more awareness and education ( even signs ) about the importance of leaving deadwood alone. Most of the ‘ well intentioned’ piles that are left get taking away by people for home fires.
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A few days to go! Donations before the end of September are doubled through match-funding. Please support this ambitious, landscape-scale, and inspiring land purchase for nature, climate and people 🐝
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So each nectar-rich flower you plant in a windowbox or your garden or community green space could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝
Bumblebee feeding on flower
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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Let rivers be wild 🌊 Rivers should have space to wind, wander and flow naturally. By #restoring habitats, and bringing back natural ecosystem engineers like beavers, we can help more life thrive. This #WorldRiversDay, let’s give our rivers the freedom to flourish. 💦
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Worcestershire Wildlife Trust @worcswt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Feeling tempted to give your garden a tidy by deadheading some plants? This is your reminder to leave the seedheads for pollinators and birds to enjoy 🌻🐝 🎥 Julie Grainger
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
By leaving deadwood in community spaces and woods, land managers & councils can provide homes for all sorts of insects, mosses, fungi & lichens, as well as vital bird & bat nesting sites. It's also easy #climateaction⁠, as deadwood locks up carbon for years! #wildlife #nature #biodiversity
A dead tree left to rot down slowly in parkland near to a river
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 27/09/2026
No one is safe from extreme weather events. NO ONE.⁣ ⁣ Oil, coal and gas corporations continue to make obscene profits while making the world more dangerous with wildfires, floods, and deadly heatwaves.⁣ ⁣ This isn’t just unfair, it’s outrageous.⁣
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What the ‘natural’ disasters of 2026 reveal about climate change - Greenpeace International
Record-shattering global temperatures across land and sea are the grim reality of climate crisis, and the reason we need an immediate transition away from fossil fuels to renewable energies.
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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 27/09/2026
This is now our new normal says the panel at ‘return of the wild’ speaking about the climate emergency. They each say we need to wake up to prioritise rewilding and the role species reintroduction has in creating a more resilient Britian. #lLab26 #HopeAgain #Rewilding @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social
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Jim McClelland @sustmeme.com · 28/09/2026
🐝 🦅 🌳 🐼 🦈 🪸 Top voices* in our SustMeme Biodiversity & Conservation Feed: @rspb.bsky.social @irishrainforest.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @lgspace.bsky.social View (+Like) our Feed here: hhttps://tinyurl.com/w8995s2u * Pls see pinned Post for explainer. #SustMemeBandC
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A few days to go! Donations before the end of September are doubled through match-funding. Please support this ambitious, landscape-scale, and inspiring land purchase for nature, climate and people 🐝
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James Bullock @jmbecologist.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh FFS. Increases in a few species is not a positive from climate change It is a signal that communities & ecosystems are under threat from rapid change Please, BBC, don’t do this simplistic reporting, feeding complacency about climate breakdown www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hummingbird hawk moths and ivy bees: The insects growing in number as temperatures rise
Hummingbird hawk moths - often mistaken for small birds - are being spotted in the West Midlands.
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was such a treat to find these gorgeous little green cup mushrooms in the forest this morning. Usually all I can ever find is the bright turquoise mycelia in the rotting wood. Finding the thumbnail size fruiting bodies is pretty rare for me. Their colour is unreal. 🍄🌿
Bright turquoise green little fingernail shaped mushrooms, growing out of a rotting log
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Ireland's Native Woodland Trust @irishwoodlandtrust.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you haven't already got it, you need to read this latest book from @irishrainforest.bsky.social The opening 2 paragraphs alone are going to be quoted for decades.
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Rothbury Estate Match Appeal. A generous donor has now pledged a further £500,000 in match funding, extending the appeal until 30 September 2026... www.wildlifetrusts.org/appeals/roth...
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Rothbury Estate Match Appeal | The Wildlife Trusts
The Rothbury Estate is more than a beautiful place. It's 3,800 hectares of rivers, woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and open moorland, where wildlife still has the chance to thrive at a scale rarely s...
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Wildlife Trust BCN @wildlifebcn.org · 22/09/2026
👷‍♀️We lowered and enlarged an island at Lilbourne Meadows in Northants in August to benefit wading birds which love muddy edges where they can feed on insect larvae. 🐣Oystercatcher and little ringed plover have bred on the island since it was created.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/08/2026
Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding Aerial footage of an estate in Somerset has revealed the benefits of rewilding land in the face of extreme weather brought about by the climate crisis. The area of the National Trust’s Holnicote estate where rivers have been returned to their natural courses and wetlands have been restored have remained green and lush during the five heatwaves across the summer. In contrast, the surrounding countryside has become parched and brown. Continue reading...
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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 23/09/2026
Here we go - just signed - well done @nationaltrust.org.uk : campaigns.nationaltrust.org.uk/page/196457/...
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I've signed. Will you? Add your name to help make wildfire prevention and climate resilience a national priority, and stand with the communities affected by wildfires.
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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🦔 Do you have a hedgehog visiting your garden? Sadly, hedgehogs are facing increasing challenges, but there are simple things we can all do to give them a helping hand 🧡 Our blog will help you make your garden a hedgehog haven 👉️ buff.ly/1mwvioN #Hedgehogs #HedgehogFriendly #GardenWildlife
Small hedgehog peering out from leaf litter and tree roots, snout and dark eyes visible as it shelters on the forest floor. Credit: Anne-Marie Klaus/WTML
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are 180+ free articles on littlegreenspace.org.uk, offering positive solutions to the nature & climate crises. We run LGSpace in our spare time, and donations help keep it going 🐝 Huge thanks to everyone who has already supported us! buymeacoffee.com/lgspace
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Ms M 💚🌱💙🦊🌳🦔🌸🐞🧶♾️ @themorganic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We have a nettle patch in both back and front gardens, alongside various other native wildflowers. 😊
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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