For our tenth Garden Fest, Paul Jupp from Meadow in My Garden and festival host Toby Buckland will be launching The Pocket Meadow Project and giving away free wildlife friendly seed packets with enough kernels to create a miniature sq yard meadow in pots or garden soil.

The individual meadows might be small, but together make a network of much-needed feed stations for our threatened bees and pollinators.

You can join Paul’s seed bomb making sessions, learn sowing and growing techniques and hear how you can be part of the project and share pictures of the wildlife by joining Paul and Toby at the festival.

Meadow projects have several great benefits including raising awareness of bees (and other insects) and their predicament; encouraging everyone to contribute, however they can, to join up the landscape by creating more pollinator-friendly forage and nesting habitats: actively contributing to national insect monitoring schemes and creating a replicable model of community-based environmental engagement that can be used in other parts of the country.