Seed fund donation to Cowbar Nature
Many thanks to Staithes Arts Festival committee which has made a donation, via our website 'Buy me a coffee' page, to buy extra Yellow Rattle and Coastal Wildflower seeds for…
Cowbar Seed store
For the past couple of months, we have been collecting seeds from the Cowbar bund and cliff top plants to sow along the south verge. Click below to read more about verge management on Cowbar.
Poetry in flight and the Cowbar birds
Alex Preston, a bird enthusiast since childhood, has set out to find literary references to 22 birds, many of which you might see on Cowbar. Click below to read more about his book: As Kingfishers Catch Fire.
Cowbar Wildflower Walk
Cowbar joined in the local Community Earth Festival this June with a wildlflower walk led by Martin Allen and joined by Sue Antrobus from Tees Valley Wildlife Trust (www.teeswildlife.org) Click below to read more about this event.
Cowbar Bund May Roll Call
At the start of May there were red campions coming through all along the bund. Click below to see what else has flowered during May this year.
Earth Day on Cowbar
Today is Earth Day. It is a day to especially celebrate the extraordinary planet we live on and focus on what we must do to protect it. Click below to find out more about what's happening.
The secret life of Cowbar Bund
The bund is a rich green all over in mid-March. Click below to read more about what can be seen on the bund in early spring.
Cowbar Lane bund is looking green!
This time last year the bund was still bare earth but today it is covered in green shoots from a variety of plants which will flower later in the year. Click below to read more about what is already growing.
Cowbar Nature and Teesmouth Bird Club
Mark Askew from Teesmouth Bird Club kindly arranged for us to make an appeal for more photos of birds on Cowbar in TBC's December newsletter. Click below to read more about this newsletter.
An end of year summary of Cowbar raking and sowing.
In November 2022 we finally finished raking the Cowbar Lane bund free of the arisings from the council’s second September annual mow. Click below to read a summary of what we have done to the grassland and verges this year and to see what to look out for as growing begins in 2023.