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 […]
Conservation Work Updates
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 […]
We are so excited to announce that badger prints have been spotted in the Ten Acres woodland outside the den/horseradish field by our amazingly eagle eyes volunteer Annabel! Well done! There is now ay I could have postted these out of the muck of various prints myself so I am […]
So all good things must eventually end – or so they say. We thought we’d go out with a little style of course, so for our final day with the volunteers this year we invited everyone back to the land for a warming fire and feast and some good company. […]
This year Sustainable Life set up over 200 wooden snowflakes in ten acres along the woodland pathway to encourage people to explore this newly opened up area and get to know and see for themselves the space that the volunteers have been working hard to create all year. We chose […]
For our final few weeks on site for the Severn Trent Water maintenance project the lads ahve been looking at the far end of Ten Acres by the Dogpool Lane entrance where there are a couple of pockets of small copses. The council have recently added more woodland to these […]