This section will eventually be filled with an assortment of facts from my experience working in nature education over the years. Here’s a few for starters…

Did you know that the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) has been used as a painkilling medicine for at least 3500 years?

Did you know it takes just 500 seconds for the Sun’s energy to reach earth? To reach the sun’s surface from its core takes 20,000 years

Did you eat sunshine for breakfast? The answer is most likely yes! From maize, wheat, oats and rye, to strawberries, tea leaves, Coffea Arabica (coffee) and orange juice....to name but a few.

There are about 428,000 species of plant in the world and 34,000 of these have recorded benefits. Every single day, in every single way, we use plants.

In an average teaspoon of soil, there are more living things than humans on Planet Earth!