KEEP IT GREEN! LIVING SUSTAINABLY IN SURREY
Fancy learning about how to live more sustainably in Surrey? Find out what’s on, keep it green and discover these eco-friendly experiences taking place this February.
VOLUNTEER DAY: SCRUB CLEARANCE / FEBRUARY 3 / OCKHAM COMMON, COBHAM
Love where you live? Join SWT staff and volunteers to undertake practical activities to help conserve the local environment. Head for Cobham’s Ockham Common for some essential scrub clearance this February.
For more, visit surreywildllifetrust.org
HEDGE LAYING / FEBRUARY 7 + 11 / RURAL LIFE LIVING MUSEUM, TILFORD
Understand the significant history and intrinsic values of hedges with this hedge-laying course at the Rural Life Living Museum. Excellent for boosting biodiversity and wildlife, keep things green and learn the art of hedge laying this month.
For more, visit rural-life.org.uk
PEOPLE, PLANET, PINT / FEBRUARY 12 / GUILDFORD
For those keen on cutting down on their carbon footprint in both a professional and personal capacity, get together and chat over nibbles and some of the wet stuff at People, Planet, Pint. Started in Glasgow after COP26, this is an informal meet-up for like-minded folk with a passion for the planet to network and share ideas and practices.
For more, visit small99.co.uk
UPCYCLING: MAKE A GARDEN PLANTER / FEBRUARY 17 / THE GREAT BRITISH WOODSHOP, WEST BYFLEET
Go green with this one-day upcycling workshop led by The Great British Woodshop in West Byfleet. Get ready to grow your own this year with your very own, handmade garden planter. Perfect.
For more, visit greatbritishwoodshop.co.uk
HEAT PUMP CAFE / FEBRUARY 21 / ZERO, GUILDFORD
An informal meet up for anyone interested in getting a heat pump in future, or making their existing one run more efficiently. Chat about special heat pump tariffs, compensation curves, how to find local installers or just ask where to begin. Hosted by some ZERO members with heat pump experience.
For more, visit zerocarbonguildford.org
CREATING HABITATS FOR BIODIVERSITY / FEBRUARY 24 / RHS GARDEN, WISLEY
Are you looking to increase biodiversity in your garden? Come along to the RHS flagship garden and learn how to create dead hedges, log walls and habitat towers in an ornamental way that are both pleasing to look at and beneficial to wildlife. This session will be held entirely outdoors so please come dressed for the weather with appropriate footwear. For the practical work in the garden, please bring gardening gloves if you have them.
For more, visit rhs.org.uk
