What we do
Practical habitat restoration, one field, pond and hedgerow at a time.
The mission in practice
Restore the patches, connect the county
Our work has two halves. The first is hands-on restoration: monthly volunteer days clearing scrub, laying hedges and creating ponds on sites that need them. The second is quieter but just as important — working with Dorset's landowners to link those sites into wildlife corridors, so species can move, breed and spread.
Neither half works without the other. A perfect meadow surrounded by tarmac is a museum; a connected one is a future.
From bare ground to living landscape
Our programmes follow the stages of recovery on every site we take on.
Survey
We walk the land with the owner and map what's there, what's missing and what could connect.
Restore
Volunteer days do the heavy work — scrub clearance, hedgelaying and pond creation, all by hand.
Connect
Landowner partnerships turn restored sites into corridors, with hedgerow gaps closed and margins widened.
Monitor
We track returning species year on year, from water voles to wildflowers, and adjust as the land tells us to.