Jersey National Park

09/06/2026

A five-star stay, for the Park’s smallest residents 🪲

Students from Highlands College Life Skills have been out with the Jersey National Park team, helping us build a large bug hotel from pallets, pine cones, sticks, and old bark.

It might look rustic, but that is the point… Insects need gaps, tunnels, dry corners, dead wood and sheltered places to hide, nest and raise the next generation. These hidden gaps are exactly where life happens 🪵

For the students, it was a proper hands-on project in nature: collecting materials, working together and building something that will support wildlife long after the day was done.

Built with care, graft and a good bit of teamwork. We think the first guests will approve 🐞

25/05/2026

23/05/2026

A beautiful weekend ahead…
For a 😎

22/05/2026

20/05/2026

We do love talking about the weather 🌦️

Looks like rain. Bit windy. Too cold. Coat on. Coat off again… It is part of Island life?

But today’s , the weather was more than just small talk. Led by Paul Aked from Jersey Met and Emily Wagdin from Jersey Biodiversity Centre, this was about reading the signs: in weather records, wildlife sightings, and the patterns that only become clear over time 📊

Paul helped us look beyond the daily forecast and into the records behind it. Weather is something we feel day to day, but those records help show when something starts to repeat, when something stands out, and what that might mean for how Jersey plans and prepares 🌡️

Emily brought that same thinking back to the living landscape. The more we notice, record and share, the clearer the picture becomes of what is changing around us 🦋

This was weather chat, but with purpose. A brilliant walk about paying attention properly, to the evidence Jersey is already giving us. Huge thanks to Paul and Emily for helping us connect the dots🔎

19/05/2026

The clouds parted right on cue 🌦️

But we were going to get muddy on this one 🥾

This morning’s began at Anne Port and climbed towards Anneville Farm, with Christian Gott leading a conversation about something we all depend on, but do not always stop to question: food 😋

Along the way, we asked whether we have become disconnected from what we eat, whether Jersey loves the idea of local farming more than it supports the reality of it, and what it will take for farming to feel like a viable future for the next generation 🧑🏼‍🌾

At the farm, those questions had real ground beneath them. Justin Le Gresley spoke about organic growing as it really is: not a romantic idea, but a working system built on soil, skill, observation and adaptation. Failure somewhere, success elsewhere, and a constant willingness to keep trying 🌱

Then the whole thing became beautifully simple… Jersey Royals, freshly dug from the ground, cooked in the Binney and Boarder kitchen, and shared on the farm they came from. The real deal, of a field to fork, experience 🥔

A privilege to spend the morning with people who understand that local food is not a concept. It is care and commitment 💚 Anneville Farm Shop, An Island Chef, Binney and boarder

18/05/2026

18/05/2026

We successfully dodged the rain 🙌🏻

Yesterday’s with Aaron Le Couteur from The Grazing Project gave us plenty to think about 🦌

We started from a time when sea levels were lower, land stretched further, and what is now Jersey was connected to a much wider landscape 🌍

What would this land have looked like all that time ago? How did people live with the land, rather than simply take from it? And when did that balance begin to shift? 🌿

The conversation moved from ancient landscapes to the choices we make now… Because cheap food is rarely cheap. The cost turns up elsewhere, in tired soil, fewer wildflowers, less wildlife, pressure on farmers, poorer health and landscapes that can no longer recover on their own.

This was a walk about change, across time and under our feet. About how we eat, how we care for land, and how we rebuild a healthier relationship with nature 👣

Not just a walk through the landscape, but a conversation with it. Thank you Aaron 💚