Want to reduce your stress, enhance your attention, elicit a sense of awe, or promote social connection? Try taking a walk and looking for birds. Here's why. psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindfu…

Above the last of the wheat and corn, a full moon proudly shone. Hare was grateful and glad for the season's change, the year she'd had. Her golden fields would be replaced with first frost and winter's reign. But not tonight, just sometime soon. Tonight she had her Harvest Moon.

The Forest Bathing Institute #ForestBathing #mindfulness in #nature helps you to re-connect with yourself. Spending just 2-hours savouring the beauty of a woodland setting this #Autumn will help you to relax and calm your mind and body. We have lots of stunning sites 🌳zurl.co/XHI8

Do you teach ecology or conservation? Want to learn about ecology or conservation? The British Ecological Society have produced this resource for teachers listing sixty short videos, with more to come. britishecologicalsociety.org/learning-and-r…

This shows what could be done in so many more cities and towns to boost biodiversity and help pollinating insects. RT if you’d like to see more healthy green spaces like this beautiful wildflower meadow at King's College, Cambridge at Cambridge University 🐝

Lovely haul of different squashes to try from local market garden. Will test them all with the recipe booklet from the market garden. I'll keep seeds for sprouting & sowing next year. I'll share my findings!

What a lovely job on a wet late October afternoon. Collected fresh herbs and hung in bouquets in the kitchen. Smells wonderful and will be used thru winter.

Lovely fresh growth on the wild mint, fennel, dandelion, nettles and lemon balm so plenty to make tissanes this autumn.

Getting closer to our relaunch & change from Astrofarm France to Rural Retreat France. A few tasters of our new look across the board.

November glow 🍂🔥 Not only do Oak trees nourish our flora and fauna to a greater degree than any other tree but the Oak 🌳 has played a significant role in just about every ancient European culture In ancient Greece the Dodona Oak had particular significance. The priests of

British gardens combined cover more land than all our nature reserves put together. Making them more wildlife-friendly will really help ensure wildlife's existence in the future. 🌻Leave a wild corner and allow leaves to rot down on borders. Make a log pile or pop in a pond!!!

Full Moonset this morning with an unexpected and non forecast frost . Glad I covered my delicates last night!

Nice little guy taking advantage of the fleece over the geraniums last night!

This Sunday is the last full moon of 2024, and will feature a lunar rarity. The moon will rise and set at its most extreme northerly points on the horizon, something that only happens every 18.6 years! "Of Stars in Shadow" ⭐️🌙 #berenandluthien #luthien #Tolkien #tolkienart

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳

Ridiculously excited and can barely wait. Coming soon to Rural Retreat France. (The one on the top of the pile!) ...

New UK Season: 5-9 January: Bare Branches are Stark What can you see in the stark branches? #72seasons #barebranchesarestark 72 Seasons is a project which helps you notice more nature around you and increases wellbeing.

Brand new addition to Rural Retreat France 9 wezk old Bernese/Collie/Retrieve. Unwanted accident from neighbouring farm. She's lovely and settled in beautifully with our other household animals. She will be very loved here.

Have you ever wondered why Horse Chestnut buds are so sticky? Well the story goes that the Fairy King caught a naughty gnome smearing glue where he shouldn’t, so forevermore he was tasked with painting the buds with his glue to protect them through the #winter! #FolkloreThursday

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