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Stolen from SkyNews.

No more lawnmowing for me this year. I am all in on supporting bio diversity?

This was Eddie Elk a few years ago bugling in our alpine meadow:

I suspect for some it may also provide very necessary exercise which they may not engage in, other than either their better half or their own sensibilities cause them to get motivated with the mower...?

Bruce spot on, friends of ours in the village run Prickles in a Pickle voluntarily and have over a 100 in at any one time. Judy is a nurse so can diagnose and treat the bonfire, strimmer, RTA and Robot Mower victims.

Most gardens have a hedgehog box in them for them to overwinter in, sadly down here with climate change they tend not to hibernate but run short of food so saucers of cat food are around together with fresh water.

Our Son and his wife have 2 acres they rewilded 12 years ago in Cornwall and planted indigenous (Cornish traditional) fruit bearing trees and often deer visit and one day they witnessed a Stoat take a young rabbit and fox sightings common.

Totally in favor of this wish we would do it over here too, also ban all the chemical weedkillers and fertilizers that are used in gardens. The millions of acres of gardens could go a long way to protecting and enhancing our wildlife habitats. When we had our small holding in Herefordshire I stopped using chemical fertilizers and weedkillers in the garden and paddock, planted native wildflowers and only cut the lawn and hedges late summer after the second brood had been raised. We had an amazing array of wildlife come visit and live in our patch of nature. Here in the mountains we have never used any chemicals on our 7 acres of forest and do not cut the alpine meadow, again we are rewarded with the diversity of wildlife and especially Butterflies that visit and stay with us. The Hummingbirds will arrive shortly after the April snow which signals the start of our summer. SCRUFFY is best.