Depaving is the first step to letting nature breathe again! GrowN22, Matthews Garden Maintenance, and Milo the dog have started creating a pollinator garden for a GP surgery on the #HackneyBuzzline.

Day Two in Hackney! Landscaping works are continuing at the Kingsmead Medical Centre. Today, we laid a weed control membrane across the site and started placing self binding gravel from Stone Warehouse everywhere. Thanks to the amazing Meg from Jewson for sorting GrowN22 out

Assembly at Kingsmead School E9 with the junior ecoteam telling their school about the importance of bees and butterflies and how we can help them. For those children scared of insects, the ecoteam taught us how to do an 'I'm not a flower' dance ... one they invented.

Day three in Hackney! Landscaping works at the Kingsmead Medical Centre are almost complete. Today we placed down the remaining tonnage of gravel and used a compactor to bind the gravel into a level and smooth surface. The delayed edging material luckily arrived in the post and

Join our March for Clean Water #RiverLea contingent 🌊with Leaside East London Waterworks Park 🏊🍃💚🍃🏊 London Waterkeeper Gerry Tissier ecoACTIVE @SustainHackney We'll meet at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens (near Goding St entrance) at 11.15am on 3 November! what3words: ///prompting.jazzy.tent

Volunteers from Millfields Users Group are helping SQ and Gardening Together put 5000 English bluebells bulbs into a native tree biome planted by Tree Musketeers on the Hackney Buzzline.

Dropped in to the buzz line in the Kingsmead fish park. Huge thanks on behalf of bees to all the wonderful volunteers and can't wait to see it in the spring!

Great work going on with ecoACTIVE on the Hackney buzzline for all our pollinators.

March for Clean Water. Central London. #floodthestreets

Relatives and friends are making a pollinator garden for the 'Golden Girls' - three women from Hackney's Kingsmead Estate who passed away. We're putting in a wildflower scrape, sandy bee bank, and lavender gabion planters, reclaiming materials from nearby. #hackneybuzzline

Children from Mandeville School helped put 5000 English bluebell bulbs in a native tree biome on the #HackneyBuzzline, planted by Tree Musketeers. Our bluebell blanket will provide a spring source of wild pollen and nectar for pollinators. With help from ELATT and Millfields Users Group.

Today we launch a partnership between ecoACTIVE and GrowN22 to create pollinator havens across Hackney - starting with Hackney Council street parklets and community gardens. I'm delighted, on a glum November day, to be working with people making our world a better place.

We've landscaped a pollinator garden for Hackney's Kingsmead Medical Centre. It's the first partnership project between ecoACTIVE and GrowN22 - showing how charities and businesses can work together on community-led environmental projects. Now on to the plant selection..

Children from Kingsmead School E9 school helping sow a butterfly meadow on the Hackney Buzzline. The mix of wildflowers and grass seeds was selected to support the Essex Skipper, whose numbers are regionally declining. The project is supported by Butterfly Conservation 🦋 and The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

It's not all about the bees and the butterflies on the #HackneyBuzzline. Sometimes, it's about the big cats (and the small ones). International Day Kingsmead School E9 primary school.

Thank you to 117 people of all ages who have planted 5000 English bluebell bulbs over the last six weeks on Millfields park for the Hackney Buzzline. Can't wait for spring.

We're thrilled to have formed an art partnership with Hackney Mosaic. Project founder Tessa Hunkin tells how volunteers are making a trail of beautiful bee and butterfly mosaics along the #HackneyBuzzline. We've installed the first pair of mosaics Kingsmead School E9 primary school.

Jamal, Mia, Cindy, and Najat joined the #HackneyBuzzline ecoteam Kingsmead School E9 school. Head teacher Evelyn Deeney asks them what they're doing for pollinators, why we need bees and butterflies, and how they chose two beautiful mosaics for their school, made by Hackney Mosaic.

We're so excited that Greening Kampala City Campaign is partnering with ecoACTIVE to fly the Hackney Buzzline idea 4000 miles away. Uganda is a country rich in bees and butterflies. We need to create a better future for pollinators all over the world.

We've got a new electric cargo bike for Xmas. The bike provides sustainable transport on the Hackney Buzzline. We're also using it to manage Hackney Council street parklets as pollinator havens, working with GrowN22. Thanks to Zero Emissions Network and The National Lottery Heritage Fund for funding.