Merchant and Mills

Nature and Environment

We walked for wellbeing

Raising money and enjoying the nature reserve

Time to harvest your sloes

Work needed now if you're to enter the Rye News Sloe Gin Championships

Calendar to raise funds for Mallydams

RSPCA Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre at Fairlight to benefit

The core of community

Fresh off the press as volunteers bring Rye a taste of nature’s best.

Connecting children to nature

Art installation at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve

In evergreen support of Ivy

Good for wildlife - for birds, insects and bats - and for people.

Bird nesting success

Avocets, Little Terns and Sand Martins at RSPB Dungeness

Sussex Wildlife Trust photo competition

Closing date for entries is October 1

Birds captured on film

Stunning photos by James Tomlinson taken at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve

Monthly beach clean brings volunteers together

A rewarding experience at the monthly clean-up at Camber Sands

A bumper harvest

Produce from Rye Community Garden donated to foodbank

Willow basketmaking in Iden

Used for everything from shopping to fishing, harvesting to delivering

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