Nature Journaling by Lowri Watkins
Wild About Craft - Nature Journaling at Springdale Farm
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About the event
If you’re looking for inspiration, our ‘Wild About Craft - Nature Journaling Sessions’ are designed to help capture your imagination. We’ll lead you on a walk around our diverse Springdale Farm Nature Reserve, and highlight some of the interesting plants and animals which can be found there. Along the way we’ll stop and examine wildlife by sketching whatever inspires us! Through closer observation, you may hone your species identification and drawing skills, as well as creating an illustrated memento and record of wildlife sightings.
Bring along your sketchbook and favoured art medium (suitable for the outdoors!) and we will guide you to your inspiration. If you are new to the art, don’t worry! Just bring along some paper and a pencil – that's all you need to start your nature journaling journey!
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Please note, the walk will be on uneven ground and may include long vegetation.
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Members - £10Non-Members - £15
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About the event site
Springdale Farm SSSI is a 45 hectare nature reserve and working farm that showcases how practical conservation methods can benefit farming and wildlife simultaneously. Designated for its exceptionally large area of species rich neutral grassland, visit to enjoy wildflower rich meadows, broadleaf woodland, streams, marshy grasslands and ponds, all of which support a vast array of wildlife.
We manage the reserves habitats with late-summer hay cuts and grazing to help wildflowers thrive. We control bracken and scrub to support species like Ringlet butterflies and Harvest Mice. In autumn and winter, we ramp up work like coppicing and scrub clearing.
Wildlife highlights
Bluebell displays, Barn Owl, Blue-eyed grass, autumn grassland fungi, woodland birds.
Springdale photo gallery
Jane Corey
Lowri Watkins
Viv Geen
About the event leader
Community Ecologist, Kath Beasley, has been passionate about nature and being outdoors for as long as she can remember. During her A-levels Kath volunteered with the GWT, surveying water voles and mink activity on the Gwent Levels. She then went to the University of Sheffield to study Ecology and Conservation Biology. During her degree, Kath took a year out to gain practical experience, securing a position with the Herefordshire Wildlife Trust as a Trainee Project Manager on their Ice Age Ponds Project. Following graduation in 2022, Kath has been working to gain more practical conservation experience.
Joining the Trust in June 2023, Kath’s role will see her working with local communities to increase volunteer participation on and around the Trusts reserves. Having grown up in the Eastern Valleys, she is particularly enthusiastic about improving the accessibility of involvement in nature conservation activities with the GWT.