Green Fifield aims to enhance and add to the existing natural assets of the parish of Fifield and the surrounding area. We aim to do this by arranging and trying to inspire projects focused on enhancing biodiversity and by raising awareness of sustainability and how to live in an environmentally friendly way.
Green Fifield organises talks in the Parish Hall on various environment and climate focused topics. A recent talk saw Hannah Bourne-Taylor (www.hannahbournetaylor.com), author of the beautiful book “Fledgling” speak on her experiences raising a finch fledgling in rural Ghana. Talks have also hosted Ian Wilkinson, founder of FarmED (and member of the village) and in March 2023, Lucy Bearman-Brown, local hedgehog expert.
Also housed in our parish hall is a Library of Things, a Green Fifield initiative which holds a list of items people in the village are willing to lend to others for those ‘one off’ jobs. The aim of this is to encourage reuse of existing items rather than purchase of new things that are rarely used.
Other activities organised by the group are local tree planting and a garden tree giveaway to celebrate the Queen’s Green Canopy (www.queensgreencanopy.org) and an ambition to promote a beautiful wildflower corridor on the main road into our village by undertaking some road verge management activities.
The group is also engaged with the Evenlode Catchment Partnership and Waterwatch (part of Earthwatch) to record water quality in Littlestock Brook.
See recent news from Green Fifield in the posts below:
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Email or Paper -Communication Preference Form
Read more: Email or Paper -Communication Preference FormPlease complete this form to notify your preferences on how you want to receive information and from whom. Details on how to return it are on the form.
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2024 Wildflower Verges “Great Rake”
Read more: 2024 Wildflower Verges “Great Rake”Sunday 8th September 2024 Ten keen volunteers gathered on a cloudy, but dry, September afternoon with rakes, gloves and garden recycling bins. For the third year, organised by community action …
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Troubled Waters…how we can all help water quality in the Evenlode
Read more: Troubled Waters…how we can all help water quality in the EvenlodeA talk hosted by Green Fifield in March’24, from Jennifer Lanham from Cotswolds National Landscape and the Evenlode Catchment Partnership highlighted the some key facts to keep in mind when …
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Unveiling the plaque
Read more: Unveiling the plaqueOn a rather damp day in mid June, Catherine Hitchens (as past Chair of the Parish Meeting) unveiled a plaque to commemorate the tree planting in the Recreation Ground, part …
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Orchids on Fifield roadside verges
Read more: Orchids on Fifield roadside vergesIt is well known in the village that Fifield and the surrounding area has the most wonderfully varied seed bank of wild flower species. The recent Wildflower and Orchid walk …
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Evenlode River Pollution
Read more: Evenlode River PollutionGreen Fifield has produced this information leaflet with the permission of WASP and ECP to share the terrible data released by The Environment Agency in April 2023, showing the enormous …
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Green Fifield Annual General Meeting 22/23
Read more: Green Fifield Annual General Meeting 22/23The Green Fifield Community Action Group AGM was held on Thursday 30th March 2023 in the Fifield Parish Hall. Followed by a fascinating talk from Prof. Lucy Bearman-Brown on the …