THE REALLY GREAT GARDEN BAT WATCH – 2 JUNE TO 5 JUNE 2022
From the Jersey Bat Group: ‘Please join the Jersey Bat Group for the fourth Great Garden Bat Watch!‘This event combines the joy of (hopefully!) watching bats with citizen science based research that can help us better understand bats across Jersey.‘We are particularly keen to receive sightings of bats from St Helier and other urban areas around the Island to help us with our research into Jersey’s urban […]
BETHAN WATKINS – EXHIBITION ON 4 AND 5 JUNE
Artist and poet Bethan Watkins is holding her first Jersey exhibition on 4 and 5 June with Art House Jersey at Grève De Lecq Barracks. She is a longstanding student of the Arts, who, in the last few years has supported Jersey’s local food economy as well as campaigned for Islanders to eat locally. Her […]
THE GENUINE JERSEY – JERSEY ROYAL POTATO GROWING COMPETITION
The annual Genuine Jersey, Jersey Royal potato growing competition, sponsored by Homefields, held its weigh-in held at Grouville Parish Hall, the last in a week-long series of potato weigh-ins. In what has been one of the driest seasons for some time, results were mixed with the first ever bucket recording no potatoes at all! Starting […]
ARCHAEOLOGISTS EXPLORE HIDDEN ICE AGE LANDSCAPE
A team of archaeologists are in Jersey this week to begin an ambitious survey on foot of a former Ice Age landscape off the southeast coast of the Island. The archaeologists, who are from UCL’s Institute of Archaeology and Archaeology South East, are working on a section of the intertidal […]
JERSEY NATIONAL PARK FORMS A NEW BOARD
The Jersey National Park has appointed new a board of directors and members, developing links with a range of stakeholders and the charity. The appointed members will help deliver on the the two key purposes of the Jersey National Park: The conservation and enhancement of the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of the Park; […]
JERSEY DAIRY FARMS ‘MOOOVE’ FORWARD – TO BECOME EVEN MORE SUSTAINABLE.
Jersey Dairy has announced a new partnership with Trinity AgTech, to provide a credible and bespoke carbon emission and biodiversity evaluation programme for Jersey dairy farms. The company was launched to help farms measure and leverage carbon and natural capital so as to create more resilient, sustainable businesses. In doing so, local farms can help […]
LEAF AND FARMING
On Thursday 12 May, the Jersey Royal Company’s Peacock Farm in Trinity was launched as a ‘LEAF demonstration farm’. LEAF (Linking Environment And Farming) ‘works to inspire and enable sustainable farming that is prosperous, enriches the environment and engages local communities.’ LEAF is working very closely with Jersey’s agricultural sector. Their website, https://leaf.eco contains more […]
The JSO IS BACK!
The Jersey Symphony Orchestra is back after a two-year break caused by the pandemic. A number of concerts were planned, but each one had to be cancelled because of the persistent situation caused by Covid. The JSO will hold its summer concert in Le Quennevais School Hall on Saturday 6 August, starting at 7.30pm. There […]
INVASIVE SPECIES WEEK: RAISING AWARENESS OF THREATS TO BIODIVERSITY
A number of free events have been arranged for this year’s Invasive Species Week (16-22 May), to raise awareness of invasive non-native species. Invasive Species Week is an initiative of the Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS) and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). It is an annual national campaign to raise awareness of […]
NEW SERIES OF ‘GEOWALKS’ LAUNCHED
A new series of guided walks exploring the Island’s geological, natural and cultural heritage has been launched by the Aspiring Jersey Island Geopark (AJIG) project. The ‘geowalks’ began at La Rocque and Plémont last week and continue at L’Etacq next Tuesday (10th), with further routes during the rest of May and into June, including at […]