Today we went back to the woodland pathway to clear some of the dangerous overhanging willow crushing the sloe thicket tunnel and other fallen willows obstructing the pathway. In addition we started some preliminary balsam bashing to keep it at bay from this area. The volunteers worked really hard all […]
Conservation Work Updates
Volunteers continue to work on the river bank clearing excess dead layers and fallen crack willow that has built up and caused so much destruction of the normal growth of the river bank on this section. We had a lovely cuppa in the sunshine of course with added biscuits! AND […]
Today, thanks to funding by the Selly Oak NNS fund we were on site in Ten Acres working our way down the River Rea (starting from the Bourn intersection). We litter picked the river and its immediate banks and managed to gather enough litter for 4 cartloads (plus one very […]
Huzzah! We are super pleased to announce that Ten Acres restoration work will commence in 2022 thanks to the funding of the Selly Oak NNS fund! We will be holding regular weekly volunteering sessions in Ten Acres on the park side, working on restoring the view of the river, cleaning […]
We’ve not had the means to update you recently – our sincerest apologies for this – but never fear work has been carrying on (with regular photo update son fota/suslife social medias. So here is the update of the work now the project is nearing it’s end. The garden as […]
We ahven’t updated in while so here is a big gallery of what we’ve been up to! Lots of balsam bashing, path clearance as the brambles sneak back in, painting, leaf prints with wax, blackberry eating and plums!
This week it was very rainy so we spent most of our time under the tarp in the woodland staying warm and dry. However, we did venture out to build a magical fairy door/house on top of the hibernaculum complete with its own little garden and decorations (courtesy of violet […]
This weeks top meadow gardening club has EXCITING news! We went to look at the tadpoles in the hidden pond, the middle sized pond in the middle of ten acres wood. Here we captured a few tadpole and froglets and looked at the differences between them. While doing so, one […]
It’s official! There are definately bats in Ten Acres and we are working on figuring out what we have now. It was an absolute pleasure to discover that we had bats right where we had placed two bat boxes earlier this year so its very exciting times! We definately have […]
We had a super busy half term this week in Ten Acres with our two volunteering groups! First of all the families in top meadow garden laid down some membrane to supress the bramble roots around the apple tree and reclaim the area for the orchard. The kids loved helping […]
