Events

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©️ Flora Hastings

Online Talk: Vegan-Organic Gardening

23 Jan 2025, 6:30 - 7:30pm

This Veganuary, discover what 'veganic' growing is, and how you can bring its ethos and practices to your garden, allotment or green space.

£6, with optional donations to Wild About Gardens
Blean Woods showing lots of thin trees and bracken as the sun shines through
Ray Lewis

Vision for the Blean Session Two - WBI Community Advisory Group

1 Feb 2025, 10am - 12pm
Laud Building, Room Lg46 Canterbury Christchurch University North Holmes Road Canterbury CT1 1QU

Come and meet us face to face to continue building your vision for the Blean landscape. We will share the common themes that emerged from September's vision workshop and discuss what you'd like the Community Advisory Group to achieve going forward. Whether you've joined a session before, or if this would be your first session you're very welcome to attend!

Free

Botany for beginners - online evening course

3 Feb 2025, 6 - 8pm
Online, In your home

Do you want to learn more about plant names but don’t know where to begin?

The cost of this online evening course is £15 per person
Online only Green winged orchids at Marden Meadow
Green winged orchids at Marden Meadow

UK Habitat Classification (UKHab) Online Training Course

10 Feb 2025, 10am - 3:30pm
Online, In your home

An online training day on the UK Habitat Classification, a new comprehensive classification system for vegetation habitats used in conservation and land management

The cost of this online one-day training course is £150 per person
English Oak

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Weekend Wellness: Forest Bathing in the Blean

16 Feb 2025, 10am - 12:30pm
Thornden Wood Road. Canterbury Kent CT6 7NZ

Soothe your body and mind on a guided, meditative walk through the woods, inspired by the Japanese practice of Forest Bathing- Shinrin Yoku.

£16
The bison in Wolf Wood
The bison in Wolf Wood - by Donovan Wright, Bison Ranger

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Bison Ranger Experiences: A Morning at West Blean

25 Feb 2025, 10am - 2pm
Thornden Wood Road. Canterbury Kent CT6 7NZ

Spend a morning with one of the Bison Rangers, discovering all the latest updates and joining them to try tracking the Wilder Blean herd.

£65
Common Toad
David Sewell

Amphibian Ecology and Survey Techniques

8 Mar 2025, 2 - 8pm
Tyland Barn Nature Park & Gardens Chatham Rd Sandling Maidstone ME14 3BD

This course will help you understand the importance of habitats to the different amphibians. You will learn how to recognize the key species and be part of a torchlight survey at Vinters Valley Nature Reserve.

Standard fee: £37.50 per person per day. Concessionary fee: Kent Wildlife Trust volunteers, senior citizens, unemployed and students £5 off.