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An aerial shot of the green grounds of Howbery Business Park
The hornbeam welcomes visitors to our site.
The Howbery community getting involved in a honey bee education workshop.
THANK YOU We are so pleased that the advice to slow the spreading of the coronavirus is being followed. We would like to thank everybody who is staying sensibly at home and, of course, all those who are out and about keeping the country running and caring for those in need. Workshop participants inspecting the honey bee frames.
which we have previously worked on piece-meal. For example, we have developed different habitats in our grounds ranging from ornamental flowers to wildflower areas to a bug hotel.
Trees and composting We also already have a programme in place to preserve and manage our many existing trees and to plant new ones, working with Heritage Tree Services. Howbery is home to many unique trees from all around the world, some of them planted in the Victorian era when the Manor House was a family home. Last year, we produced a video with Heritage about our trees (you can find it on our website), and invited our community to join us on a tree tour – another big hit. Many of our trees are deciduous, and our gardeners collect fallen leaves in autumn to go on the compost heap. They also add our grass cuttings to help produce compost, which is then added to our soil
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during the following year. The team also chips our woody garden waste for use as a decorative dressing on our beds. All our green waste is re-used on site. Meanwhile, members of our community are encouraged to do a spot of their own gardening, on one of our dozen mini allotments, which we created in 2017.
and creating lovely working places is worth the effort. Here at Howbery, as well as knowing it is the right thing to do, we believe that nurturing our green spaces is a real draw for tenants, visitors, and people arranging meetings here.
Worth the effort The Howbery community tell us time and again how much they love our beautiful grounds, and back our commitment to caring for the landscape and wildlife. For example, Jonna Mundy, CEO of You HR Consultancy, commented: “Howbery is everything you would expect a business park to be and more. The grounds are beautifully maintained, there are boats to borrow by the river, and it’s ahead of the game on so many things, such as corporate social responsibility – for example with the bee initiative”. This sort of praise shows how acting responsibly,
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