
Jon Keepen
@greenkeepen
Head of Conservation at Cumberwell Park Golf Club. Avid gardener and plant lover. Prefer to be outside whatever the weather.
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03-03-2016 19:22:10
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Congratulations to all of the finalists in every category in this year's Golf Environment Awards Everyone has been doing such great work and no doubt will continue to further wildlife and ecology on golf courses. I'm thrilled to be the Conservation Greenkeeper of the Year 2021 🌿🐝⛳🏆




Fantastic afternoon spent with Clive from out local branch of Butterfly Conservation doing our first survey of the year. Trying to record what species we have on the course and how we can encourage more! 🦋 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Cumberwell Park

We want golf courses that are becoming more environmentally friendly or enhancing biodiversity to be recognised and strongly encourage them to enter the golf environment awards! Entries close Friday 30th July! @striturf Ecology @ BIGGA Syngenta UK Marie Aquatrols Company #golf



Thanks to Dr Emily Joáchim for coming to ring our birds again this year. 4 Little Owl chicks, 7 Barn Owl chicks and 2 Kestrels hatched on the course and will be flying before too long. Great to see golf and nature sharing the same space and thriving. 🐣 🦉 ⛳




We're fortunate to have our local branch of Butterfly Conservation conducting surveys to help us better understand what species we have on course and how we can help them. Clive and Hugo have also been putting out moth traps with some fantastic results! 🦋 Butterfly Conservation 🦋


We welcomed Bath Corona Group for their 30th anniversary lunch today. Guest speakers Head of Conservation Jon Keepen & Course Manager Matthew James gave an insight into our conservation work on the golf courses 🐝🦉🍂🌺




We were delighted to have @redkingcraw from CBeebies Grown-Ups 🎉 at the course today filming our Little Owls for the programme Teeny Tiny Creatures. A big thanks to Dr Emily Joáchim for coming to do the ringing and providing her insight. Cumberwell Park 🦉


It was a pleasure to present our conservation work Cumberwell Park with Jon Keepen to Probus Group today 🦉🐝🐞🦋 GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf Ecology @ BIGGA Golf Environment Awards British & International Golf Greenkeepers Assn.


It looks like being another great year for our raptors with Barn Owls, Kestrels and Little Owls all having young. Cumberwell Park


It was fantastic giving members of the Corona group a tour of the course this afternoon. We showed off our wildflower meadows, veteran oak trees and lakes that provide such a great habitat for wildlife. Cumberwell Park GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf


A fantastic day out yesterday in the Vale of Pewsey, Wiltshire, monitoring and ringing Barn Owls with the Lewis Raptor Group. Back at the course today it was time to replace a worn out Barn Owl box with a new one that I made during the winter 🦉 Cumberwell Park GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf


Another successful year for the raptors here at Cumberwell. Three Barn Owl chicks, two Little Owl chicks and four Kestrels were all bred and are doing well. 🦉🐣 Cumberwell Park GEO Foundation for Sustainable Golf
