{"id":624,"date":"2015-06-25T17:01:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T17:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/victoria14\/?p=310"},"modified":"2015-06-25T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T17:01:18","slug":"soil-biodiversity-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/06\/25\/soil-biodiversity-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil biodiversity in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlgf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wildlife Gardening Forum<\/a> held its conference &#8216;Soil Biodiversity in the Garden&#8217; at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Natural History Museum<\/a> in London. Being a keen gardener and researching soil biodiversity I had to go along.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 717px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/CIQWKpEXAAAKul6.jpg:large\" alt=\"Steve Head opens the Wildlife Gardening Forum conference\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Head opens the Wildlife Gardening Forum conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Wildlife Gardening Forum is a group of organisations and people who are passionate about wildlife in gardens and seek to help people value and enjoy wildlife in their gardens. While there has been quite a lot of interest in gardens as habitats for birds, mammals and pollinating insects, few consider the life below ground\u00a0so this conference was a great way to raise the profile of soil organisms and discuss ideas. Check my Storify:\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/storify.com\/SoilScholar\/wildlife-gardening-forum-soil-biodiversity-in-the-\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Wildlife Gardening Forum &#8211; Soil Biodiversity in the Garden&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0to see some of the talks and discussion that was generated, finishing with an afternoon in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhm.ac.uk\/visit\/galleries-and-museum-map\/wildlife-garden.html\" target=\"_blank\">Natural History Museum Wildlife Garden.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week the Wildlife Gardening Forum held its conference &#8216;Soil Biodiversity in the Garden&#8217; at the Natural History Museum in London. Being a keen gardener and researching soil biodiversity I had to go along. The Wildlife Gardening Forum is a group of organisations and people who are passionate about wildlife in gardens and seek to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,142,96010,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-london","category-museums","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}