Finding Crab Apples and Beach Clean at Seascale
A busy day with Jamie, CWT's Senior Education Officer
A busy day with Jamie, CWT's Senior Education Officer
The Crab apple is familiar as a small tree that produces yellow-green, rounded fruit that is used for making jellies and wines. It can be found in woods and hedges, as well as in cultivated…
Outdoor kit company inov-8 will donate funds from this year’s Black Friday sale to the Trust to help reduce CO2
Unbelievably, we are fast approaching one year of being conservation apprentices here at Cumbria Wildlife Trust! We’re definitely not the newbies anymore; Isaac and I are now both deep into our…
10th October 2016 - Fruit collecting and tree tagging with Jamie and Annie Meanwell
Tents, camping chairs and wellington boots were among items collected by BAE Systems apprentices who swapped the Barrow shipyard for beachcombing on Walney as part of their training programme.
Living up to its name, the oak apple gall wasp produces growths, or 'galls', on oak twigs that look like little apples. Inside the gall, the larvae of the wasp feed on the host tissues,…
Cumbria Wildlife Trust responds to call for global strike
Kate Cartmell Done will be leaving for university in Bangor very shortly. While she’ll be dearly missed here for all her fantastic work, Cumbria Wildlife Trust has decided to take on 2 new…
Poetry inspired by the apple orchard at Gosling Sike by writer-in-residence Susan Cartwright-Smith.
We started to construct the Apple archway walk in the autumn off 2019.
As Cumbria Wildlife Trust’s new Apprentice Conservation Officer, I will writing a regular blog to provide an insight into what I’m getting up to in my new role and hopefully inspire a few people…