Thursday was a very quiet day, so we enjoyed an autumn walk looking at the leaves and colours of the woodland and stomping in muddy puddles before visiting basecamp and enjoying toasted marshmallows and a bacon sarnie. Friday was much busier, with lots of volunteers putting in some serious hard […]
Conservation Work Updates
This week the volunteers concentrated on clearing the second woodland area to allow people to access it again. It’s amazing how huge it is!
Another two glorious days out and about in ten acres woodland with the team and Fridays are now so popular we are fully booked for volunteers! Do not worry though, Thursdays still have some room so why not book your place now via email admin@suslife.uk.
Work is steamrolling ahead and the team have rediscovered whole new woodland area in Ten Acres this week and excavated it for public use once more. wow!
On Thursday 1st October we were delighted to have guests from AECOM engineering with us working hard to help us to clear the pathway in Ten Acres. The whole group were amazing hard workers and a great laugh all round. We had a treat of daal, tikka masala, onion salad […]
This week we did a LOT more work on the path clearance opening up the old pathways through ten acres. A willow tree also fell partially over the pathway making it dangerous to walk under so we sectioned it off and creating an alternative pathway through the site to improve […]
More information on what dead headging is and how it can help with woodland management AND conservation of species.
This week we worked on clearing the original pathway and making is suitable to walk on again as well as some essential work on a willow tree that had broken over the pathway. With much of it still hanging above the pathway local ranger Alf came by to help us […]
Today the team got to work clearing around the old apple tree planted by Fruit and Nut Village Stirchley some eons ago now. The apples are lovely crisp brown skinned apples an dthe tree was laden but no one could get near enough with all the bramble that had overtaken […]
Alan gives us a quick tour of the birch grove next to the den in Ten Acres and how it’s an excellent example of woodland succession and what that means.