Collie Ennis

But what it is, is

When they go home from school, most of their gardens are plastic grass or paved over.

Most of the parks around are mown within an inch of their life, or they're just blank greens.

And when they're even playing with their mates, they're online on headphones.

Mm-hmm.

So they've no access to nature.

They've no connection.

And that earthworm set them off on this whole thing.

Now I'm going to go back to school, hopefully, very soon and help them with a bit of gardening, a bit of just getting a bit of dirt under the fingernails of the kids.

Fifth-year kids!

Yeah, and there's that, like, it's a digital disconnect is a really good way of looking at it.

And, you know, the concept of getting there and finding things, like, it's kind of a running joke with me and some of my friends.

Is that real?

And that's literally what they say when you show them a caterpillar, a frog.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's, you know, to try and get them more involved in it and using digital media, there's wonderful stuff out there.

And I recommend all of you to get into this as well.

And I'm sure when we were going down

the lockdown route everybody got into walking and got into looking at nature but a lot of people got into pokemon go we would have we would have out during the pokemon go so there's a real life pokemon go called i naturalist and it's a free app you can get and not only are you out there looking at you'll get your head in some nettles and your ass will be up in the air and people think you're a weirdo but stick your head in some nettles this year because there's all sorts of little creatures in there