We saw new plants and new faces this week in Top Meadow Garden, planting meadowsweet, babbingtons leek and willowherb. We also got out our bug hunting kits and looked at lots of bugs while we were doing so (and found plenty of worms!).
Conservation Work Updates
Volunteers continued to restore the river bank last week and clear the built up deadwood and bramble from the riverside making room for young saplings, native trees and plants. Its starting to look really beautiful and they have created another little walk through of the wooded area upon the bank.
We planted mroe wild strawberries today in the top meadow garden and decided upon laying a new path through one of the beds as the children were naturally drawn to cross the beds at this point. We made a few of our own pots using paper and pot shapers and […]
Forest Futures volunteers continued work on Ten Acres this week and along the overgrown banks near riverbrook meadow/broadmeadow they discovered a large old apple tree deep in the overgrowth, surrounded by beautiful lilac trees previously obscured and a few wild dog roses. A stunnig hidden grove of beauty now on […]
The volunteer team over on the other side of the rea got stuck in today picking up a considerable amount of litter from the bank and clearing some more weed trees and bramble that had overrun the river. Its not really starting to take shape as a beautiful landscape again […]
It was a busy and productive day this wek on ten acres in top meadow garden where we planted some wild strawberries, forget me nots and primroses into the first flower bed section. We then used some of the felled logs from the woodland side to create a hibernaculum alongside […]
The volunteers were back out there again this week working on the river bank and restoring the view. Its hard work with so much overgrowth and rubbish to fight through but they are getting there slowly but surely!
The volunteers returned to the conservation and woodland management sessions with the new Forest Futures project funded by the National Lottery. Just like they had never been away, they got stuck in with quick and efficient work – picking up 4 bags worth of litter from the entrance to ten […]
The woodland management team visited top meadow yesterday to help us clear the bramble in Top Meadow further back, revealing more of the lost field underneath. It was hard work in the brilliant sunshine but the results are amazing!Find out more about the top meadow project here. Or sign up […]
Thanks to Tribal we have a range of tit boxes, bat boxes and a tawny owl box installed on site in Ten Acres. To help you get a better idea of where everything is we also created this handy google map to show you roughly where to find boxes, key […]
