Green Careers – latest Nature Connects podcast released by Tamar Valley National Landscape
Make the most of every opportunity and connection.
Ask questions, be curious.
Be passionate, be yourself.
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Make the most of every opportunity and connection.
Ask questions, be curious.
Be passionate, be yourself.
Just three of the many pieces of advice that you will hear in the latest episode of the Nature Connects podcast, that has just been released from Tamar Valley National Landscape – this month focussing on green careers.
To mark National Apprenticeship Week in February, listeners can find out more about the apprenticeships, traineeships and internships created through our National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Tamara Landscape Partnership scheme, and hear from the next generation who are benefitting from real hands-on experience and knowledge exchange throughout our National Landscape.
Podcast hosts, Ginnette Sutherland and Charlotte Dancer, spent time on the Bere peninsula this episode, interviewing Marketing Trainee Kirsty at Harlings Devon, while Ginnette gave an account of her experiences so far and explained how Nature connectedness is important for us all.
Dave Bouch, Head Gardener at National Trust’s Antony and Cotehele estates, explains how he started his career as an apprenticeship at Antony in the 1980s, and introduces their current apprentice Sophie.
Charlotte Dancer says; “It’s been great to hear more from the wealth of talent we’re working with in the Tamar Valley through the apprenticeship and internship opportunities with Tamara, and the new skills they are learning. Through Tamara Trainees, by the end of the Scheme, five 18-month apprenticeships and six 12-month traineeships/internships will have been completed.”
Nature Connects was launched last month, to bring the benefits of Nature to a wider audience, by celebrating the stories and sounds from Tamar Valley National Landscape, through a series of immersive walk and talk podcasts.
A regular feature of the podcast includes taking just a moment to pause, listen and connect to the natural sounds that can be heard in the Valley, based on University of Derby’s Nature Connectedness research.
Ginnette Sutherland explains more; “The University has devised five ‘pathways’ to help people form a stronger connection with Nature – senses, beauty, emotion, meaning and compassion. This episode, you’ll hear the sounds of Nature at Weir Quay. We’d love to hear which sounds you’d like us to include in future episodes.”
The podcasts also highlight at least one Tamar Valley Special Species; 17 plants and animals that were identified within Tamar Valley National Landscape’s Nature Recovery Plan 2023-2030 that need a helping hand to thrive. Bryony James, Community & Volunteer Officer for Tamara Landscape Partnership Scheme, talks about the harvest mouse that can be found in a range of habitats, including species-rich grassland, reedbeds, tussock grasses on heathland and field margins. Creating field margins, reducing grazing pressure and leaving patches of grass to grow long are just three ways in which we could help the harvest mouse.
If you’re interested in a green career, this podcast offers tips and advice that you might like to consider as you start your journey.
Listeners can find the first two episodes of Nature Connects on podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music and Podbean. New podcasts will be released at the end of each month throughout 2025. These podcasts have been made possible thanks to National Lottery Heritage Fund supported Tamara Landscape Partnership Scheme, a project of Tamar Valley National Landscape.
