Beetles, Dead Wood and Creative Structures - The Garden Web of Life Workshop Series

Join us for the second of our Garden Web of Life workshop series - focusing on beetles and other lovers of dead wood.
Dead wood is full of life! It's a vital habitat in the garden web of life and it turns out many very helpful natural 'pest' predators love to call it home. If you don't have your own garden, come and learn how you can help on a local project nearby.

Learn: About the life that thrives in dead wood habitats. How to encourage natural 'pest' predators like beetles and slow worms, which are also food for birds and small mammals, with log piles, dead hedges, leaf piles and 'bug hotels'. And how to make them look intentional and attractive in the garden - teepee structures, gabion basket benches, dead hedge screening, etc. Led by Alex Dommett from the Avon Wildlife Trust.

Make: Help to make a beautiful BugSnug (Habitat TeePee) using locally coppiced Hazel and Willow as a legacy for the Community Garden, and take home the knowledge and confidence to make your own in your garden.

Plan: How you can bring dead wood habitat into your garden. Bring a plan or aerial image of your garden and we can help.

Share: Tea and cake, plus wildlife sightings, gardening for wildlife tips/wins, and ways to advocate for wildlife beyond your patch.

We are asking for a donation to cover the costs of running this workshop, and have set a suggested amount which covers tutor fees, insurance, tea/coffee/cake and materials. We would however like our workshops to be accessible to all, so genuinely feel welcome to adjust this to what you can afford. Children do not need a ticket.
All welcome, children should be accompanies by an adult.
We will be working outdoors, under the shelter at the garden, so wrap up warm.
The space is accessible for wheelchairs. Please let us know if you have any accessibity requirements

Each month we will be looking at part of the web of life that calls our gardens home and how we can support this vital web by creating a haven for wildlife in our green spaces. Future workshops include newts, swifts, bees, aphids, butterflies & moths, bats, hedgehogs, worms, winter migrants and foxes.

Supported by Alice Park Community Garden and The Co-op Community Fund