Jilly has helped to create and restore over 600 clean water ponds in East Anglia under FWAG East’s pond project. She believes ponds are critical to boosting biodiversity in farmed landscapes. Jilly has an RHS Diploma in Horticulture and, when not restoring and surveying lost ponds for great crested newts, can be found tending her three-acre wildlife garden which she opens to the public for the National Garden Scheme. She is also Trustee of a historic community garden in Saffron Walden, Essex.