Renovation work is finally starting on Henallt House, which has been housing very successful open days of exhibitions, and Botany and Other Stories has blossomed into a registered charity.
Registered charities need a board of trustees, and the latest issue of the Cabbage Leaf has been put together to introduce them, and their various interests and expertise.
Dr Emily Warner is a researcher at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery, based at the University of Oxford. Her special interest is trees.
Jeremy Armstrong is a woodland manager - so he also has a special interest in trees, and in increasing the biodiversity of woodlands by careful management.
Jenny Dicker is a farmer and specialist in Land Management.
Pierre Moulinier is one of the founders of Botany and Other Stories. He is also a journalist, geographer and geopolitician.
Françoise Verger is the other founder of Botany and Other Stories, and is also a journalist, as well as a language teacher and botanical illustrator. At the moment she is painting a lot of different mushrooms!
Imogen Cripps is a researcher and Head Grower at a walled garden that is being restored.
Emily Jones is a pharmacist, who also grows medicinal plants (sometimes unintentionally, she says!)
Over the coming year there will be a series of events, and behind the scenes the trustees will be working to organise the volunteers, set up a scientific committee to help produce reliable information about climate change and nature, and to develop the Budding Botanical Illustrators Club, which was launched during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In November, the theme is Seeing the Wood for the Trees
In January - In Onion is Strength!
In March - Mushrooms are not Plants! (they were disappointed that they couldn't do anything to take part in the recent Fungi Weekend organised by Hay Castle - but they voted on their programme in June, before they knew what the Castle was planning).
And from May to August next year, they will be exploring the themes of Hands in the Dirt, Heads in the Sun, Heart with Nature.
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