Create a Buzz
Pollinating insects are essential for healthy ecosystems, but they’ve been in dramatic decline over the last 40 years.
Create a Buzz, a pollinator project funded by the Garfield Weston Foundation, raises awareness of the plight of pollinators and helps pollinating insects and their habitats to thrive.
Pollination Trail
Check out the map and follow the multimedia trail in the Outdoor Gardens to discover fascinating stories about plants and pollinators.
Wildflower meadows
Wildflowers were once a significant part of the British landscape until WWII when huge amounts of meadow were ploughed for arable farming. Today, they account for less than 1% of the British countryside.
As part of the Create a Buzz project, seven hectares of annual and perennial wildflower meadows have been sown in our Outer Estate by the National Wildflower Centre, based at Eden.
University Research Project
This collaboration, with the Applied Network Ecology group at the University of Exeter, is investigating plant-pollinator interactions on a range of new wildflower habitats grown on different types of waste materials.
Eden Schools Paradise Pastures
Following a successful trial at Roche Community Primary School, the Eden Schools Team launched Paradise Pastures: a set of creative, pollinator-friendly science lesson plans that can be downloaded for free.
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Established in 1958, the Garfield Weston Foundation is a family-founded charitable grant-making trust which now gives away approximately £80 million a year to charities across the UK.
Having established one of the most respected charitable institutions in the UK, the Weston Family Trustees today remain highly active and hands-on.
The Foundation’s funding comes from an endowment of shares in the family business – a successful model that still endures today and as the businesses have grown so too have the charitable donations.
Gaia Art Foundation is a non-profit initiative that facilitates transdisciplinary exchange across art, ecology, science and technology. We collaborate on research projects and facilitate artistic exchange and partnerships. We convene projects, workshops and public events, and support new commissions and platforms alongside various other initiatives.
Our mission is to support artistic practices and encourage experimentation and research that seek out answers and explore ideas that will improve our collective future.
Our ambition is to provoke and foster vibrant discussion and collaboration across disciplines to encourage new positive ways of seeing, thinking and being.
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