The richness of the natural world is under threat. Conserving the biodiversity of plants, trees, and hedgerows, protecting and encouraging nature, ensuring that our springs can resound to birdsong, that there are insects to pollinate what we grow, that we and our children and grandchildren can still marvel at the wonders of nature – these have become urgent concerns in the twenty-first century.
St Margaret’s Allotments and St Margaret’s Churchyard form a great green space in the heart of Durham, a space which is part of the Emerald Network around the city, a space which links with the woodlands of Durham Riverbanks, with the green slopes of Observatory Hill, with the gardens at Crook Hall and the green of the Wear Valley beyond them. A corridor of enormous importance for nature – for birds, animals, insects to move.
St Margaret’s Allotments Association, with its partners, is playing a role in maintaining that precious corridor of green, through maintaining a rich natural environment, with:
