In the field
A blog dedicated to young people connecting with wildlife and the natural world
Nature Poetry Collection
22 May 2023
By Alicia Hayden
I just thought I'd post a quick update and let you know how my poetry collection is progressing. The collection is still tentatively called "Multi-coloured Ghost Towns", and it is exploring wildlife and nature, with …
The Green Gallery
20 February 2023
By Emily Hunt
Perhaps I was clutching at straws. I found it hard to believe that young people as a whole didn’t care about nature. So I sent out a request for people in my school to forward me any photographs of nature that they had in their …
Exploring The Land Of The Long White Cloud - Part I
27 October 2022
By Amy Hall
Tomorrow I will have been in New Zealand for 6 weeks. 6 weeks. Time has raced by since touching down on the tarmac in Auckland. I have travelled more than 2000 km from north to south (and back north again!), seen heaps of new species, …
Saw Horse for School
27 October 2022
The Youth Naturalist Fund kindly helped me to purchase this sawhorse for my forest school site, allowing the primary school children that I work with to use sharp tools in a safe and controlled way.
Without this piece of kit, the children would …
70 Nest Boxes for 70 Years
27 October 2021
By Kabir Kaul
In celebration of the 2022 Platinum Jubilee I created this project for 70 schools in the 32 London boroughs and the City of London to sign up to receive a nest box for their school grounds.
This project was made possible with …