Nectar works - Bowland Award Nominee
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Landscapes for Life - Conference 2017 Lead, Share, Learn, Inspire Tuesday 18th - Wednesday 19th July 2017 - Winchester, Hampshire
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Nectar works - Bowland Award Nominee
- 1. Nectarworks Mandy Oliver North Pennines AONB Partnership Nectarworks Community Officer
- 23. Volunteers
- 24. II “ I wouldn’t say that attending that training course on bumblebee identification changed my life, but it has certainly enhanced it.” Mary Crosby, bumblebee volunteer
- 31. II “The whole project has been incredible. The children have enjoyed it so much – fear of bees has totally subsided and in its place we have bee experts who confidently share their knowledge with both their peers and other adults who visit our school” Carey Turnbull, Wearhead Primary School
- 35. II “The residents thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon out at the gardens and the fact that they could get closer to nature on the bee survey.” Julie Fawcett, Care Home Manager
- 39. Thankyou to our funders:
- 40. Thank you!
Editor's Notes
- Hello. My name is Mandy Oliver, I work for the North Pennines AONB Partnership
- This is North Pennines AONB and UNESCO geopark. Like all AONB’s it is one of UK’s special places due the quality of its landscape and the habitats found there, in particular for the purposes of this presentation, the upland hay meadows.
- What is an upland hay meadow? Since the second World War, as a nation we have lost 97% of our flower-rich meadows and there has been a corresponding decline in bumblebees. This is an upland hay meadow. Sadly, it is now a very rare habitat. There are around 900 hectares left in the UK and 40% of these are found in the North Pennines AONB. They are jammed-packed full of a unique suite of wildflowers and are a fantastic habitat for our nectar and pollen feeding invertebrates, especially bumblebees.
- Flowers such as wood cranesbill, great burnet, melancholy thistle, globeflower and lady’s mantles
- Along with the more common yellow rattle, eyebright, red clover, meadow buttercup and sweet vernal grass (and lots of other species) they make up these wonderful habitats
- They are however, a fragile habitat as traditionally they have been managed under a regime of low intensity grazing, fertilising and cutting and are therefore threatened by modern, more intensive farming methods. Those subjected to these modern practices of fertilising and more intensive grazing quickly revert to this – no good for pollinators. With 40% of the UK’s resources of upland hay meadows and our healthy populations of bumblebees the North Pennines AONB are in a good position to take action
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- We learnt about their lifecycle and what they need in a habitat to be successful
- And why this is important to us., pollinating many of our favourite fruit & veg and how our diets would be very different if all the bees disappeared.
- We used bumblebee pollinated apples to cook (and eat) apple turnovers
- We worked with community music students from Sunderland University at Sage Gateshead and made songs about bees which the children performed to parents and at our first gathering here at St John’s Chapel Town Hall
- We Surveyed the school grounds to see how bee-friendly they were and hunted for (and found) bumblebees in the school grounds; 7 different species in Shaftoe Trust at Haydon Bridge
- Having discovered what bumblebees need in their habitat to be successful, we set about making the school grounds more bee-friendly by planting nectar and pollen-rich flowers supplied at a discounted rate by Eggleston Hall Gardens.
- We also produced a pack of fun and active curriculum linked activities about bumblebee for 3 – 11 year olds
- Working with communities, we organised talks about bees, bee walks, family bee events
- We worked with 8 different community groups across the North Pennines and encouraged them to create bee-friendly spaces within their communities In church yards at St Thomas Heatherycleugh at Cowshill planting spring flowering bulbs St Thomas the Apostle in Stanhope bringing the Church committee, school and scout group together to make the grounds perfect for pollinators Working with the Shaftoe Trust Primary school in Haydon Bridge to grow and plant out wildflowers in the new wildflower green burial site How many people?
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