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KIW Trainee Deepak here. Working in Frays Farm Meadows, I've been assisting the Trust's senior ecologist, Tony Wileman, in carrying out grassland surveying, assessing the health and quality of our nature reserves. With the use of a 1m squared quadrat, we record the percentage of neutral grassland species we encounter and later relay this information to the Trust's Reserves manager, who works with our ecologist team to ensure our reserves are supporting wildlife to their best potential. On the farm, we also encounter cattle and horses who help maintain the meadow through conservational grazing; enhancing the diversity of the land.

on wednesday the 12th of may I was doing a butterfly transect with Anna Guerin at Hutchinson's bank and we were very excited to find a pair of mating Duke of Burgundy butterflies. They let us get up close and take pictures, it was a great experience- sharnee

Trainee sharnee again, I thoroughly enjoyed bushcraft with Alison at Walthamstow wetlands, We learnt knife skills, making a mallet and tent pegs. We learnt foraging for greater plantain to make balm and we learnt how to make special knots and how to put up a tarp to stay dry and safe. It was a really great experience and incredibly therapeutic working with your hands.

Trainee sharnee here, on friday we Went for a walk with forest school children (under 5s) and a pair of geese and their goslings let us come really close to them, like they knew the kids were safe and weren't going to harm them

Hello everyone! Keeping it Wild Trainee Max here. As a second lockdown is upon us, earlier this week we discovered puffballs in Crystal Palace Park. Trainee Lauren and I were so excited! As fungi lovers, this was definitely a species we wanted to tick off our lists and we managed to find two different species - result! We have definitely been treated across this fungal fruiting season and I can't wait to see what else we can find in our local areas in East London!

Hi everyone, Keeping it Wild trainee Max here again - On Monday at Walthamstow Wetlands, we found some amazing blue mushrooms in the outdoor classroom - it proved quite exciting for the half-term events taking place and all the children were shown the mysterious fungi! To end the day, there was a gorgeous sunset that I was luckily enough to see when locking up the site - so magical!