{"id":30456,"date":"2023-03-12T22:50:16","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30456"},"modified":"2023-03-12T22:50:16","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:50:16","slug":"from-no-mow-may-to-let-it-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=30456","title":{"rendered":"From &#8216;No Mow May&#8217; to &#8216;Let It Bee&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023031202.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nThe\u00a0 Vale of White Horse district council (VWHDC) has a new biodiversity project called <em>Let It Bee <\/em>, which reduces mowing of some council sites to allow more wildflowers and help bees and other insects. This follows on from the <em>No Mow May<\/em> trial last year.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Sally Povolotsky, VWHDC Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency and Environment, said: \u201cWhen lawns and other grassy areas are kept short through very regular mowing, wild plants don\u2019t get the chance to grow, flower and seed and thrive. In addition to increasing insect life to the area, the Let It Bee project should make the plants and the soil better able to withstand periods of extreme weather, as we had last summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This will involve six VWHDC sites in Abingdon:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag23\/2023031205a.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAbbey Meadow<br \/>\nFitzharris Estate<br \/>\nOxford Road<br \/>\nRye Farm<br \/>\nTilsley Park<br \/>\nWhite Horse Leisure Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0 Vale of White Horse district council (VWHDC) has a new biodiversity project called Let It Bee , which reduces mowing of some council sites to allow more wildflowers and help bees and other insects. This follows on from the No Mow May trial last year. Councillor Sally Povolotsky, VWHDC Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}