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Come and see us at the annual Groundswell Festival in Hertfordshire.
Groundswell is an annual festival, now in it’s 9th year. It’s a two-day event open to everyone who is curious about how we grow food and care for the land, with a focus on a farmer’s main asset – the soil.
Throughout the festival there will be a number of talks, demonstrations and discussions from a variety of people across the sector including farmers, soil health experts and agricultural policy experts.
This year we will be working with Oakbank and Velcourt at the festival – come and see us at stand E27 in the Pasture Field.
John Harold is Plantlife’s Farm Partnership Manager. You can contact John here.
Emma Ball is Plantlife’s Specialist Ecological Advisor working within our Plantlife Biodiversity Consultants team. You can contact Emma here.
Beth Webb is Plantlife’s Partnership Manager. You can contact Beth here.
Laura Colman is Plantlife’s Senior Partnerships Manager. You can contact Laura here.
Sarah Williams is Plantlife’s Head of Partnerships. You can contact Sarah here.
Join us in person, or virtually at this special collaboration event between Bristol Libraries, the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network and Plantlife.
Step into the mysterious world of wild plants and uncover the secrets that grow in our fields and gardens. Join gardener Danny Clarke, Plantlife Specialist Botanical Advisor Sarah Shuttleworth and pastoral literature scholar Francesca Gardner for a lively evening exploring the power and poetry of plants.
From the crucial role of wildflowers in tackling the climate crisis to the surprising history of “lawnmower poetry,” our expert panel will dig into how plants shape our gardens, communities and imaginations. Learn how to make space for nature in your own outdoor spaces and discover how the humble daisy or dandelion could be saving the world.
The event will be live streamed on the day on the Living Knowledge website and the recording will be available after. Visit the website here for more information.
Sarah Shuttleworth has been a botanist for 17 years, and surveys plants and habitats all over the UK. Sarah also teaches botanical identification to beginners and professionals, online and in person, using creative ways to engage and inspire.
She is also one of the spokespeople for Plantlife’s NoMowMay campaign and is often seen on BBC news, radio and other media outlets to promote the importance of plants and their habitats.
Danny Clarke is a British Garden Designer who shot to fame in 2015 as BBC’s Instant Gardener. He has also graced our screens with a host of popular garden makeover shows and horticultural advice.
Danny is now a member of Alan Titchmarsh’s Love Your Garden team and is passionate about making a difference to climate change and community integration.
Francesca Gardner is a researcher, supervisor, and Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholar at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge. She works on long eighteenth-century pastoral and georgic poetry, genres which explore people’s relationship to the natural world.
Her recent article ‘Lawnmower Poetry and the Poetry of Lawnmowers’, published in Critical Quarterly in May 2025, received national and international media attention.
Get ready for a full day of celebrations! Discover the secrets of the temperate rainforest through talks, music and even guided walks to experience the wonder of these habitats first hand.
We’re teaming up with Cumbria Woodlands to host a full day of activities for you to explore, learn and wonder at the beauty of our temperate rainforests. Discover the species that survive nowhere else on earth and meet the experts working to recover these forgotten habitats. There will even be the opportunity to take a trip into a real rainforest to experience the wonder of these habitats first hand! You can book onto a walk separately using the links in our What’s On page here.
Our rainforest activities will take place on World Rainforest Day on June 22. The day will begin with a drop-in session where you can explore Cumbria’s temperate rainforest and meet the organisations who are on the forefront of the work being done to protect these special habitats. Tea and coffee will be available.
We will then be showing an exclusive screening of Cumbrian music producer DJ Werkha’s SATURAMA. This beautiful, immersive film shot at Naddle Forest by Joel Hepworth and Ryan Cooper, is designed to show you the magic of temperate rainforests, and is brought to life with a live soundscape installation by Tom Leah. Werka’s SATURAMA inspires us to form a deeper connection with our natural world and protect it as we would each other.
Following SATURAMA, we will be hosting a panel discussion bringing together experts from across the country who represent a variety of different professional sectors. Together we will be exploring how collaboration between sectors can make us so much more than the sum of our parts when it comes to making a positive change for nature.
9am – 10am: Arrival at Rheged Discovery Centre. Attendees must register their parking with the venue to avoid paying a parking fee. Tea and coffee will be available in the Blencathra room, while you take some time to learn about Cumbria’s temperate rainforest from our partners.
10am – 11am: SATURAMA – live installation by DJ Werkha in Screen 2
11am – 11.15am: An opportunity to stretch your legs and grab a hot drink before returning to Screen 2 for the panel discussion
11.15am – 11.45am: ‘How can we work together to save our rainforests?’ – Your chance to ask questions to our experts to discover how everyone can be involved to protect and restore our temperate rainforests
12.00pm – 12.30pm: Lunch will be served in the Blencathra Room. Please indicate when booking your ticket if you have any dietary requirements or allergies
12.30pm – 1pm: Get ready to leave for your guided walk! Walk leaders will be waiting outside in the car park with minibuses ready to transport you to your guided walk location! Please ensure you have booked your space on the guided walk of your choice
1pm – 1.30pm: Travel to guided walks – find out more about the individual walks on our What’s On page here.
1.30pm – 3.30pm: Guided walks. This is your opportunity to experience the magic of temperate rainforests up close! Please inform your walk leader if you have any accessibility requirements or pre-existing medical conditions that they need to be aware of.
3.30pm – 4pm: Travel back to Rheged Discovery Centre
Join us for a livestream, where Sam Jones, Rare Plants and Wild Connections Project Manager, will show you rare plants, and answer questions about the work we’ve been doing.
We’re here to celebrate the 3rd year of the Cairngorms Rare Plants and Wild Connections Project – and there’s an awful lot to celebrate!
Join Sam Jones, Rare Plants and Wild Connections Project Manager, as he takes you live to the Cairngorms to share how we’ve been engaging people all across the National Park in nature conservation since summer 2020.
Watch along and you’ll also learn how the project engaged the community and early career botanists with surveying and conservation work online in 2020 and 2021, and how it’s led to exciting developments such as the Twinflower translocation programme.
Sam also will be updating you with an update on our work with the very rare and poorly understood One-flowered Wintergreen, as well as how citizen science has uncovered previously unidentified waxcap sites in Deeside.
Thanks to the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Cairngorms National Park, and Nature Scot, for your support of the project.
Building on our previous work, Plantlife’s project, Rare Plants and Wild Connections, empowers people to take action to save and support our rarest wild plants
Uncover the region’s deep-rooted traditions, plant knowledge and how everyday magic shaped the lives of the people who lived in the Fens.
Join this free event to learn all about No Mow May, how to take part and why it matters.
Join Plantlife experts for this Mock FISC (Field Identification Skills Certificate) assessment in Wiltshire.
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