In this special bonus episode of All Nature, from the Carbon Copy Podcast, we meet Gnisha Bevan. Gnisha and co-founder Roger Griffith, MBE started the Black Seeds Network around five years ago to provide a platform for environmentalists of colour to socialise, gain support, seek opportunities, develop innovation, knowledge and expertise on environmental issues. Now, the network has joined with partners including Friends of the Earth to create a year-long programme of events and activities called “Nature Rising.” We met Gnisha via the team at the West of England Combined Authority, who have proved some funding for the Nature Rising programme and suggested we might like to learn more about the Black Seeds Network.

Originally recorded for All Nature, Episode 4; the conversation was so interesting and engaging we decided to create this bonus episode to give you, the listeners, more of the story.

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Show Notes

Read about the Black Seeds Network: https://creativeconnex.org/about-black-seeds-network/

Listen to All Nature: Positively Buzzing to learn more about nature protection work in the West of England: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/all-nature-positively-buzzing

Read this local news article about the Nature Rising programme: https://www.bristol247.com/climate/news-climate/global-majority-project-celebrates-summer-success/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3JSCV4HCqGSVMxx0nNbxkm1ACc1hr8AGXOEFP7sjc04ujsTBCh9vUfrCo_aem_pr1UcRNrtt4AyCL3al_8uA

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In this episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast’s All Nature series, we discover the ambitious work of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA), which hopes to make the region the UK Pollinator Capital by 2030. We hear from Sophie Spencer, Senior Environment Manager at WECA about why nature recovery and, in particular, pollinators, are such an important focus for the organisation. We learn about the Bee Bold Awards, a unique annual celebration of local groups and businesses that are doing something special for nature and we hear from some of the organisations that have received support as part of WECA’s pollinator programme: Co-forest, Middle Ground Growers, Black Seeds Network, St. Peter’s Hospice and Really Wild Lockleaze.

- Sophie Spencer

Listen, to learn:

• About the wide range of different organisations that have received Bee Bold Awards and why supporting pollinators is important to them.
• More about the different environments that can support pollinator numbers – in towns, cities and in more rural settings.
• How WECA is working with organisations to support community engagement and to promote inclusion in nature recovery projects.

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Show Notes

• Listen to the bonus episode Black Seeds Network: Nature Rising: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/bonus-episode-nature-rising
• Discover more stories about communities, councils and companies working with nature: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives?search_term=&filter-local_area=&filter-action_area%5B%5D=1743
• Learn more about the Bee Bold Awards on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/bee-bold-awards
• Read more about Co-forest on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/co-forest
• Learn more about Middle Ground Growers on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/middle-ground-growers
• Read about Really Wild Lockleaze: https://www.lockleazehub.org.uk/really-wild-lockleaze
• Learn more about St. Peter’s Hospice: https://www.stpetershospice.org/

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In this episode of All Nature, from the Carbon Copy Podcast, we hear from two community organisations selected as part of the Nature Neighbourhoods programme. In Edinburgh, we meet the founders and participants in Granton Community Gardeners, a charity helping to improve access to fresh food and green space, which attracts people from a huge range of backgrounds, ages and nationalities. In Leeds we discover the Lincoln Greeners group, a weekly gardening group run by community arts organisation Mawfa Theatre. We learn how growing together is helping to overcome social isolation and is helping wellbeing for both volunteers and participants. We also speak to Nature Neighbourhoods Programme Manager Rory Crawford, of the National Trust, to understand more about how the initiative came to be, and the aims and aspirations for the three major nature organisations that lead the programme: National Trust, RSPB and WWF-UK.

Listen to learn:

• Why nature conservation doesn’t need to be the primary focus for urban gardening and growing projects to be beneficial.
• How the Nature Neighbourhoods programme is empowering and supporting community organisations to keep doing what they do best at a local level.
• What keeps participants and volunteers coming back to these inspiring projects every week.
• How local and grassroots projects can still have a massive impact.

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Show Notes

• Read more about Granton Community Gardeners on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/granton-community-gardeners
• Read more about Mafwa Theatre’s Lincoln Greeners group on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives/mafwa-theatre-lincoln-greeners
• Learn about another of the Nature Neighbourhoods programme projects – Hamiltonhill Claypits Local Nature Reserve – in a previous episode of the Carbon Copy Podcast: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/root24-glasgow
• Listen to Bigger Than All Of Us, from the Carbon Copy Podcast series 3, where we learned about the People’s Plan for Nature: https://carboncopy.eco/podcasts/bigger-than-all-of-us
• Learn about the Nature Neighbourhoods Programme: https://peoplesplanfornature.org/nature-neighbourhoods
• Learn more about growing food locally, on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/community/produce-local-food
• Discover more stories relating to nature, on Carbon Copy: https://carboncopy.eco/initiatives?search_term=&filter-local_area=&filter-action_area%5B%5D=1743

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