Water management- Peruvian style
‘Great article discussing how Peru’s ancient cultures manipulated their water supplies in ingenious ways in order to survive in each of their many microclimates’ via Growveg
BBC Radio 4Playing out – and nature in the garden
A super couple of items from Monday’s BBC TV ‘One Show’. The first is about the new street play project in England, the following item about what nature can live in a square metre of a garden….The two items begin about 2 minutes from the start of the programme and last about 12 minutes in total.
Enjoy and share!
Old School Gardener
Why Places Matter – new booklet for local councils and communities
Produced by Living Streets with the People and Places Coalition, of which The Glass-House is a member, the booklet is being sent to all councils in England and offers a practical manifesto for councillors and communities on how they can transform the places where they live.
The booklet also includes signposting to useful information and tools that can help communities and local councils work together effectively to shape their neighbourhoods.
The Glass House– Useful resources for open space projects
Once upon a time, children were free to play rough. No longer, thanks to elf ‘n’ safety
…….boy scouts crossing a river on a makeshift rope and wooden pole bridge, enacting a rescue drill from a tall building, and building a tower of sticks – which they then climb. Before the elf ‘n’ safety police get in a tizz over these perilous activities, I should point out that the photos are 80 years old. They mark 100 years of the Altrincham, Cheshire, scout group.
The scouts’ intrepid activities would be banned today. They’d breach every rule in the over-stuffed book of no-nos that regulates our existence. Tall trees, rickety stairs, coastal paths: these are off limits today. Each involves a degree of risk, and risk-taking itself has become anathema in today’s child-rearing…..’
Article by Christine Odone in the Daily Telegraph
Tree stumps – simple play ideas
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