🌼 Wonderful — your mini meadow has been sown! Woohoo!
Thank you for taking part in the Mini Meadow Movement and helping create more space for pollinators across Barnet 🌱
If you haven’t done so already, please upload a picture of your bare meadow patch or pot to our gallery https://app.gathershot.com/public/lm3f/mini-meadow-movement-barnet-2026. The picture might not look like much to you, but it helps others visualise how to prepare their own meadow.
Your seeds are now resting through autumn and winter, and many will begin growing in spring. To say thanks a freebie is waiting for you at the end of this page!
What happens next?
-You may not see much at first — that’s normal
-Some seedlings may appear before winter
-Most growth and flowers will arrive from spring onwards
A few reminders:
-Water lightly during dry spells (especially pots)
-Avoid digging or disturbing the area
-It’s okay if your meadow looks quiet for now
You’ve now officially helped create one more mini meadow toward our shared goal of 600 mini meadows in 60 days 🌼
We’d love to learn more about the meadow you’ve prepared, would you please fill this feedback form for us? We’ll aggregate all the entries to see how many square meters of meadow was sown as part of this project – this could potentially help us secure funding to repeat the initiative next year.
We’re also hoping to learn what you loved and how we can improve!
and here’s a freebie for you, special coupon code barnet3628.
Free Online Courses for Barnet Residents and Volunteers
Barnet Council has teamed up with the Biological Recording Company to offer Barnet residents a host of free online natural history training courses. There is a wide range of subjects available, including some pollinator-focused courses that may be of particular interest to Finchley Pollinator Project participants:
- Bumblebees of the UK: https://courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/bumblebees
- Bee-flies of the UK: https://courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/bee-flies
- Flower-Insect Timed (FIT) Counts: https://courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/FIT-counts
- Surveying For Pollinators: https://courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/courses/surveying-for-pollinators
Full list of online courses: https://courses.biologicalrecording.co.uk/
To reduce the price of the onlinecourses to £0.00 you will need the special coupon code barnet3628.
We will keep you posted on how we progress towards our target. In the meantime – thank you so much! We’re so grateful you took part.
