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Episode 11 of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast is now live.
Brave Newt Hope: Making a difference for amphibians and reptiles with Maiya Evans from Nottingham Amphibian & Reptile Group (Notts ARG).
hopeintherisingtide.substack.com/p/e11-brave-...
Happy little Miner Bee having a pollen party in a crocus 🐝🌸
A nice little thought for the day about people & community & difference of opinion.
From Permaculture by Maya Blackwell
Notts folks I'm running this short course soon...
Women (+) Writing Nature
3 week creative writing course, starting Saturday 7th February, 1.30pm-3.30pm at Nottingham Central Library
with Notts Writers' Studio.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writ...
Beige mushroom on deadwood.
2 amber coloured mushrooms amid green feathery moss.
White mushrooms on bark.
Mixture of moss and lichen on a twig.
Some nice fungi, lichen & moss from a woodland volunteering session yesterday.
No 2 is velvet foot I think 🍄
Others possibly a type of oysterling.
Common feather moss, wood bristle moss, maritime sunburst lichen (greenish here but turns yellow from sun exposure)
Some recent photos of ice and badger footprints at my allotment 🦡🐾❄️
I tend to post on IG and forget to share here, sorry. Here are the wintery photos from the previous post in their bare glory.
Distant full moon in pink sky. Text reads "It's Wolf Moon tonight. The first full moon of the year. How do you plan to spend your year creatively connected to nature?"
Beech tree in winter light. Text says: "How about a writing course exploring our emotional interconnection with the natural world?"
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Wolf Moon blessings feral friends 🌕🐺
Women(+) Writing Nature
3 week creative course with Notts Writers' Studio
Starting Saturday 7th Feb, 1.30pm at Nottingham Central Library
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writ...
"...how am I taking care of my part to play in this grand puzzle?" 💚💙
Episode 9 of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast:
Creative Foraging & Art as Activism with Cara Thompson, Nottingham's Nature Poet Laureate.
For the full episode go to
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Episode 9 of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast is now live with Nottingham's Nature Poet Laureate Cara Thompson 🌿🔊💚🦋
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Text reads: women writing nature with Kirsty Fox. Creative Writing course starting Sunday 2nd November, online. Graphic features autumnal and spooky creatures and fungi.
Last chance for early bird tickets (£35) this weekend!
3 week creative writing course focused on nature writing discussing some of my favourite writers and themes 🧙♀️🦔🦊🍄
Everyone welcome 🏳️⚧️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writ...
Women+ Writing Nature 🧙♀️
With Kirsty Fox 🦊
Online creative writing course
3 weeks
From Sunday 2nd November
10.30-12.30 GMT
All genders welcome provided you're comfortable reading women's writing and up for dismantling the patriarchy 🌿🍄🦋
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writ...
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Women+ Writing Nature
Online creative writing workshop, 3 weeks starting Sun 2nd Nov, 10.30am GMT
With Kirsty Fox (me!)
Early bird price £35
All genders welcome 🏳️⚧️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-writ...
In the latest episode of Hope in the Rising Tide, I chat to James Canton about his new book 'Renaturing' and the difference between large scale rewilding and what us little guys can do.
hopeintherisingtide.substack.com
Episode 8 of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast is now live.
Small ways to wild the world - an interview with James Canton about his new book Renaturing.
open.substack.com/pub/hopeinth...
Selfie of Kirsty with headphones on, sat next to a computer set up for editing audio files.
Book cover of Renaturing: Small ways to wild the world by James Canton
Back in the studio editing the next podcast today. I had an excellent chat with James Canton last week about his book 'Renaturing' and how this differs from large scale rewilding.
Can't wait to share it with you 🌱🦔🦋
#hopeintherisingtidepod
Changeable weather. The turn of the year 🍂🌦
Bog restoration near Bradford ☀️🌱💚
#goodclimatenews
#hopeintherisingtide
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New episode of Hope in the Rising Tide podcast.
All about Auks and Orkney: on the trail of an extinct seabird and its living relatives
With Jonathan Ford (Papay Ranger)
open.substack.com/pub/hopeinth...
Positive news...
Orkney stoat cull has helped curlew numbers bounce back. Stoats are an invasive species on mainland Orkney which also threaten the existence of Orkney Vole.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I put a note out for the postie and this gorgeous Herald Moth decided it was a great place nap 😴 🧡
Cat on lap, blocking open notebook (laid on top of open book).
PhD helper 🐱 positioning herself just where my elbow needs to be in order to write.
Currently writing about extinction (grim), more specifically how ill-equipped we are to handle the thought of it.
First bloomings at the wild allotment. Coltsfoot and red deadnettle have been emerging from crevices all over the place. The snakeshead fritillary in my bog garden is making its debut.
Also there's a neglected baby hedge which I think is olive - this gets overgrown by nettles in summer.
My turn on the Country Diary - on bees and tiny meadows: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Important statement from @kentwildlife.bsky.social about the way that the government is deliberately misrepresenting what has happened at Ebbsfleet.
I can also see the crema has formed its own tears. Even the coffee weeps for you.
Pretty convenient since I'm writing a chapter about the Great Auk and it's surviving kin.
If you need a little hope boost, Episode 6 is now live. Booming Bitterns and the reedbed habitat that supports them with Joseph Klein from RSPB Leighton Moss.
Link in bio or go to hopeintherisingtide.substack.com
(We are also on S p o t i f y)
#HopeInTheRisingTide
#naturepodcast
If you need a little hope boost, Episode 6 is now live. Booming Bitterns and the reedbed habitat that supports them with Joseph Klein from RSPB Leighton Moss.
Link in bio or go to hopeintherisingtide.substack.com
(We are also on S p o t i f y)
#HopeInTheRisingTide
#naturepodcast
Handsome chappie 👨
