SPUD-TACULAR GROWING COMPETITION
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It’s that time of the year when the parish constables, the local media, Occupation VIPs, the Island’s branches of the Women’s Institute and all 33 primary schools put their gardening skills to the test in the Jersey Royal Potato Growing Competition. Local fruit and vegetable wholesalers Homefields delivered over 300 growing kits this week to […]
SCENT WORKS FOR DOGS
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Scentwork is mental enrichment for dogs affecting their behaviour in positive ways through play says Harry Matthews, the founder of Origin Dog Training. ‘Scentwork affects behaviour. Science says so,’ he explained. ‘It calms a boisterous dog. It’s mental enrichment. It boosts confidence in a nervous dog. It works the brain of an old dog. Or […]
THE ISLAND’S HEDGEHOGS NEED YOU!
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The Jersey Hedgehog Preservation Group is looking for one or two volunteers to take over the everyday running of their rescue centre in Waterworks Valley. The current care manager, Dru Burdon, who has been responsible for the hedgehogs’ welfare for 32 years, is retiring. A posting on the group’s website states that full time cover […]