Talks & Events

Nature Chain Talks & Events

Nature Chain regularly hosts talks with speakers who have a specialism in wildlife and biodiversity. Details are emailed to Nature Chain subscribers a few days before each talk. If you would like to become a subscriber please click on JOIN OUR MAILING LIST.

Coming Up . . .

Big Bulb Planting

Get ready this October for the Freshford and Limpley Stoke Big Bulb Planting, organised by Meadow in my Garden, Friends of Freshford and Nature Chain.

Thanks to funding from GWR, we have purchased thousands of beautiful bulbs for a spectacular "Rivers of Gold" flowing through our villages. Every household is invited to join in and will be provided with bulbs and a mapped location for planting. Native daffodils, as well as some miniature daffodils, winter aconites, wild tulips and pale-yellow crocuses... each species of bulb has been chosen to naturalise over time and be in keeping with their surroundings. As well as the beauty that we and future generations can enjoy, the spring flowers will create flowering corridors of forage, providing an important food source for our pollinators.

A series of bulb planting events are planned from 10am to 2pm as follows:

Limpley Stoke George V Park - 5th Oct
Freshford Cemetery - 6th Oct
Freshford Tyning - 13th Oct
Freshford Station - 17th Oct
Freshford Tyning - 18th Oct
St Peter’s Churchyard - 19th Oct
Freshford Cemetery - 28th Oct
Behind the Glebe - 30th Oct
Limpley Stoke George V Park - 1st Nov
The Inn at Freshford - 4th Nov
Freshford Tyning - 6th Nov

Nature Chain Winsley Talks

St Nicholas Church, Winsley
FREE, donations welcome. A glass of spiced apple juice on arrival.

Illustrated talk by Jon Isherwood of the Wiltshire Biological Records Centre
Thursday 10 October at 7.30pm

'Wasps and Wannabees' illustrated talk by Steve Smailes
Wednesday November 13th 7.30 pm

Recent Talks & Events

The Secret Life of Soil

Wednesday 25th September 2024, 7pm
Limpley Stoke Village Hall, Middle Stoke,

Moth Trap Event

Saturday 13th July 2024, 8am - 10am
Church Lane, Freshford/Limpley Stoke

Open Gardens

Saturday, 8 June 2024, 1.00pm - 5.00pm
Freshford Memorial Field

Bringing Back Beavers

Wednesday, 15 May 2024, 7.00pm
Freshford Village Memorial Hall
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Tackling River Pollution

Wednesday, 20 March 2024, 7.00pm
Freshford Village Memorial Hall
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Why Did The Hedgehog Cross The Road?
Monday, 16 October 2023 , 7.00pm
Freshford Memorial Hall
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Film - My Garden of a Thousand Bees
Friday, 23 June 2023m, 7pm
Limpley Stoke Village Hall
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Wild About Bees
Thursday April 13th 2023, 7pm - Organised by Nature Chain Winsley
St Nicholas Church, Winsley
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Garden Mothing
Tuesday 14th March 2023, 7pm
Limpley Stoke Village Hall
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Wildlife Garden Tours
Thurs 9th March 2023 - Organised by Nature Chain Winsley
Turleigh

The Big Wildlife Map
Thursday 2nd February 2023, 7pm
St Nicholas Church, Winsley
Organised by Nature Chain Winsley
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Big Garden Birdwatch
27th to 29th January 2023
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Close Up Wildlife
Wednesday 23rd November 2022
St Nicholas Church, Winsley 7pm
Organised by Nature Chain Winsley
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They are all weeds, aren't they?
Tuesday 25th October 2022, 7pm
St Nicholas Church, Winsley 7pm
Organised by Nature Chain Winsley

Wildflower and Bulb Planting Days
Sunday 23rd October 2022, 10am - Organised by Friends of Freshford
The Tyning, Freshford
Wednesday 26th October 2022, 2pm - Organised by Nature Chain
King George V Park, Limpley Stoke

Freshford & Limpley Stoke Open Gardens and Studios
5th June 2022, 2pm-5pm
Tea and cake sales raised money for The Refugee Council.

The Green Planet
A Nature Chain Talk with Rupert Barrington, Series Producer with the BBC Natural History Unit.
Wednesday 11th May 2022, 7.00pm
Freshford Memorial Hall
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Froglife
Tuesday 19th April 2022, 7.00pm
St Nicholas Church, Winsley.
Organised by Nature Chain Winsley
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Big Garden Birdwatch
28th to 30th January 2022
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The Secret Life of Soil with Eddie Bailey - 25th September 2024

The Green Planet Talk with Rupert Barrington - 11th May 2022

Recorded Talks Archive

’Butterflies of Wiltshire’ recording
A Nature Chain Talk with ecologist Stephen Davis
Tuesday 15th March 2022. 7.00pm
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‘The Ups and Downs of our Garden Birds’ recording
A Nature Chain Talk with Matt Prior, Chairman of the Wiltshire Ornithological Society.
Tuesday 11th January 2022. 7.00pm.
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‘Bats in the UK’ recording
A Nature Chain Talk with Laura Mulholland from the Canal & River Trust.
Monday 15th November 2021. 6.30pm
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‘Beautiful Change’ recording
A Nature Chain Talk with Paul Jupp from Meadow in my Garden.
Wednesday 13th October 2021. 6.30pm.
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‘Down the Garden Path’ recording
A Nature Chain Talk with Victoria Hillman.
Tuesday 29th June 2021. 6.30pm
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‘Forest Gardening at Home’ recording
Nature Chain Talk with Dr Nickie Jakeman.
Wednesday 19th May 2021. 6.30pm
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‘An Introduction to Gardening for Nature’ transcript
A Nature Chain Talk with Melanie Everard.
Wednesday 21st April 2021. 6.30pm
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