Wild About St. Ives, Cambridgeshire

06/06/2026

🐞 Wild about St Ives 🐝 were in the St Ives Farmers Market today for the 💚Green Week launch. You can look at the activities scheduled on the St Ives In bloom website https://www.stivesinbloom.co.uk/https://www
We gave away some oak trees to good homes and also some house plants.
We gave way sustainable bird feeders and magic wands🪄 made from willow donated by Holt Island Nature Reserve 🐦 and talked to people how to help the wildlife in their Gardens.
Thanks to St Ives Town council and FESt.
🦔See us again at Picnic in the park! Sunday 21st June, Warmers park.🎪🍰🧺

09/05/2026

Congratulations to all our newly elected HDC councilors!
Now we have elected you please take a look at this... Rotherham council planted wildflowers along verges. I noticed the verges that were not cut last year around Waveny Rd (to aid bio diversity) have been cut this year. Does this mean the experiment is over? I had heard that just leaving the glass long increased biodiversity by 30%.🌱🦊🦔🪲🐞

05/05/2026

I hope after Thursday the newly elected town council can get the free 'Parish on line' and connect with other councils making mitigation changes for the future (maybe get help with enclosing the Slepe Field?)

Nature Recovery – From the Ground Up (NR-FGU) is a project led by Cambridgeshire County Council and Natural Cambridgeshire. It is funded by the Cambridgeshire County Council Just Transition Fund.

05/05/2026

😍 Yes! Beauty in the park. More of this please, St Ives town council 🐝🐞🪲

26/03/2026

We tried really hard to get a headghog highway in place where we live!
So we were returning home at twilight and we met a hedgehog walking down the road. My son said to me, 'Why is he on the road?'
'Well because of the fences, there are no hedgehog highways'
So he made this, and leafleted the whole street. We now have a strip of long grass down the side of our garden and a hole in the fence where the neighbour showed us Were to make one ☺️

Have you made a hole in your fence?
I wonder if it has made a difference... We haven't seen any hedgehogs walking along the road since.

19/02/2026

Thank you for coming to our St Ives Eco Café yesterday, where a very enthusiastic and positive group of over 30 people shared ideas for what events we and they could run in St Ives Green Week. Then we each wrote a short personal message to our MP Ben Obese-Jecty about what matters most to us – clean water, green spaces, community wellbeing, recycling etc. – ready to post in the envelope of green hearts.

17/02/2026

St Ives Green Week 💚 is taking place June 13th–16th!
This year we’re going Wild about St Ives — celebrating and supporting wildlife in our own back gardens and nearby green spaces.
Huntingdonshire District Council (HDC) have recently allowed some green spaces to grow naturally without mowing. It’s one of the easiest and cheapest ways to boost biodiversity locally — and it can look beautiful too, especially if native wildflowers appear. You could even try it at home: leave a patch to grow, mow a winding path through it, and create a small space to sit and enjoy it.
Long grass isn’t for everyone, and some people prefer a neat, closely cut lawn. But in the height of summer, short grass often turns brown and lifeless. When we let it grow, nature surprises us — with flowers, pollinators, and all sorts of mini beasts moving in.
🦔 I’ll also be sharing a poll with simple garden pledges to help local critters and mammals. Let us know what you plan to try this year — or what you’re already doing!
It’s said you’re more likely to discover a new species in your own back garden than in the Amazon rainforest — so why not start looking? Don’t forget to log what you spot on the iNaturalist app or 'Seek' for children.
Let’s make St Ives a little wilder this June 💚

18/01/2026

🌼Future Bulb Planting in St Ives 🌼
Last spring you may have noticed lots of daffodils in St Ives. The wonderful Robin B from St Ives in Bloom has planted thousands all over the town.
🌱 If you’d like to plant bulb on a council owned green patch near you, all you need to do is gather some neighbours, 👥 and email SIIB, they will see if the green patch is suitable. You bring the team and they have the equipment. We managed it in our close last year!
Everyone loves seeing the daffs bloom.
Interested in helping or connecting us with a group? Please get in touch 💛
[email protected]

31/10/2025

Excellent work, St Ives EcoAction and St Ives town council team for the practical work. The wild flower strips at Wheatfields were stunning this summer. 🐝🐝🦋
It's great that we will now see them near the town as well. ☺️

🌼 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘁 𝗜𝘃𝗲𝘀! 🌼

We’re delighted to share that 𝗘𝗰𝗼-𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, working in partnership with the Town Council, has secured a grant of £1,800 from the 𝘊𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘍𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 to bring vibrant wildflowers to Warner’s Park and Slepe Hall Field!

Thanks to this funding, 53m² of beautiful, pre-grown and seeded turf from Pictorial Meadows will be laid on Tuesday 4th November by our Grounds Maintenance Team, creating colourful habitats that support pollinators and enhance biodiversity.

A huge thank you to Eco-Action and the Cambridgeshire Community Foundation for helping make this happen!

(Our image below shows the current progress and what we hope it will look like next year.)

11/10/2025

We were making more bird feeders and magic wands!
Thanks to St Ives Eco Café.