Posts by PapayaStudio
Pegasus join as a sustainability partner
The planning and development consultancy is funding peatland, rewilding and nature connection work across our sites. Photo: Peatland restoration at Aberarder in Scotland. Pegasus Group help other people plan and build places, they work on planning, design, landscape architecture and heritage, plus a lot of ecology and biodiversity net gain. From today, they’re also backing…
Read MoreEthicall join as a sustainability partner
We’re delighted to welcome one of new Sustainability Partners, Ethicall. The Bristol-based telephone fundraising agency will fund 50 tonnes of carbon removal through national and international restoration projects, nature connection hours for the community, and 20 volunteering days a year for the Ethicall team. Ethicall raises money for more than 45 charities over the phone,…
Read MoreNorth Somerset Showground
Belmont Acquires the North Somerset Showground Belmont Estate is delighted to announce that it has acquired the land known as the North Somerset Show Ground from the North Somerset Agricultural Society. Situated between Belmont’s Watercress Farm and the Grade II listed landscape, the newly acquired land represents an important step in reuniting the Estate and…
Read MoreA meadow, one year in
One of Watercress Farm’s more ambitious nature regeneration projects is the creation of 4.2 ha of species-rich Lowland Meadow on ex-arable land. Along with several other arable fields, the area has been left fallow for four years to allow the land to rest and recover, and had recently been taken into rewilding management, with the…
Read MoreOur Wildest Year Yet: A Nature Connection Round-Up
As the school year draws to a close, we’ve been looking back over the last year at Watercress Farm and we’re blown away with how many people we’ve welcomed to our Nature Connection programme. Thousands of children and adults have visited us this year – schools groups, children with special educational needs, university students, community…
Read MoreTLT renews its partnership for three more years
We are delighted to announce that TLT has renewed its commitment to Belmont for another three years. TLT became our first corporate partner back in 2022. Four years on, the national law firm has chosen to extend that commitment through to at least 2029, backing nature recovery across our sites, embedding sustainability into how businesses…
Read MoreHeavy pigging as a woodland creation tool
Written by Eric Heath, Head of Natural Capital and Ecology at Belmont. I love trees. My early joy at climbing them is probably one of the reasons I do the job I do. This love of trees has remained a constant in my career, and at Belmont we have a glorious array of trees, hedgerows…
Read MoreWhy we’re going wild for bees at Belmont
A lot of people don’t know this, but there are 270 species of bee in the UK. They hear the word “bee” and picture one thing, the honeybee, but that’s just one species out of 270. There are twenty-four species of bumblebee, and around 245 species of solitary bee. And then, sitting apart from all…
Read MoreBristol Life Awards 2026: Celebrating Education Through Nature Connection
Last week, Belmont Estate was awarded the Education category at the Bristol Life Awards 2026. This recognition belongs to every child who discovered what lives beneath stones at Watercress Farm, to every teacher who brought their class back again and again, to every volunteer who gave their time because they believed nature connection matters. It’s…
Read MoreWhat is rewilding?
Today the world marks World Rewilding Day which by no mistake also happens to be the Spring equinox, when the balance between dark and light tips in favour of light. At Belmont, it’s a day that feels personal to us. Here’s what rewilding actually means, why it matters, and what’s already happening. The…
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