{"id":34286,"date":"2025-09-20T19:25:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34286"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:25:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:25:22","slug":"visitors-learn-about-biodiversity-and-support-st-ethelwolds-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=34286","title":{"rendered":"Visitors learn about Biodiversity \u2013 and Support St Ethelwold\u2019s Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025092001.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nJohn Killick led a tour of the garden at St Ethelwold\u2019s House on the theme of biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p>He spoke about how, throughout history, humans have spread across the world and hunted many animals to extinction. In more recent times, large areas of the earth\u2019s surface have been covered with hard materials such as aggregate which reduces natural habitats.<\/p>\n<p>The group visited a rock supporting lichens, a cooperative growth of fungus and algae, before learning about grasses, which are wind-pollinated and do not rely on insects. John discussed which flowers best support insects, and the role of trees in providing habitats. The garden\u2019s walnut tree, though not native, still benefits many creatures \u2013 and an oak tree would support even more.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025092003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nAfterwards, thanks to Susie and other volunteers, scones were served<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag25\/2025092005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDonations were invited for the St Ethelwold\u2019s building appeal, which is now well over halfway to its \u00a370,000 target (currently at \u00a344,000). Thanks to a generous supporter, any contributions made this month (from the 10th Sept to 10th Oct) will be matched \u2013 up to \u00a310,000 \u2013 doubling their impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Killick led a tour of the garden at St Ethelwold\u2019s House on the theme of biodiversity. He spoke about how, throughout history, humans have spread across the world and hunted many animals to extinction. In more recent times, large areas of the earth\u2019s surface have been covered with hard materials such as aggregate which [&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-34286","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\/34286","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=34286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}