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Learn about wildlife at our free workshops
We are running a series of wildlife workshops at the farm. Everyone is welcome to attend – the workshops are free but you need to register so we know you are coming.
Come and hear the dawn chorus
Thursday 21st May • 7am-8.30am
There are lots of birds at Kentish Town City Farm since the 4 acre site attracts birds from both the town and Hampstead Heath. This is a rare opportunity to come to the farm before it opens and hear the dawn chorus of birds including: robins, blackbirds, blackcaps, wrens, sparrows, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, gold crests among others. The session will also teach you about the birds so you can recognise them and understand a bit about how they live.
The workshop is free to attend but please register using this form https://forms.gle/McMW1UBiKSuu7bkW9
Why we should all love moths
A meal, a talk by Tim Blackburn and then a chance to see how moth traps are set up
Wednesday 24th June 6.30pm-10pm
Kentish Town City Farm, NW5 4BN
This workshop is free to attend but you need to register here:
https://www.capitalgrowth.org/whats-on/apr26-moth-trapping-big-city-bug-hunt/
During the evening we will be providing an evening meal (donations towards the food will be welcome).
Moths are jewels of our natural heritage. They’re as beautiful as butterflies and as industrious as bees, yet lots of people I talk to seem to have an instinctive dislike of these insects. I will introduce you to the wonderful diversity of moths, which can be found even in the dark heart of the inner city. I will show how they can inform about how the natural world works, and explain why they are such important links in the web of life that includes you and me. Hopefully, by the end of the talk, you will have a little more appreciation of this amazing group of insects.
Register for the workshop here with Capital Growth.
Professor Tim Blackburn is a scientist with thirty years of experience studying questions about the distribution, abundance and diversity of species in ecological communities. He is currently Professor of Invasion Biology at University College London, where his research focuses on alien species, and his teaching mainly involves leading field courses. Before that he was the Director of the Institute of Zoology, the research arm of the Zoological Society of London. Tim regularly reports the findings in his moth trap in Camden on his Bluesky feed: @MothyBlackburn.bsky.social
This workshop is being organised in partnership between Kentish Town City Farm, Permablitz London and Capital Growth.