Top meadow is back this year in 2023 with some new sessions to help tidy it up and plant new edible forest plants. Thanks to the Celebrating Communities Be Bold Birmingham fund, via Sustainable Life and Food Forest Brum project managers we have plenty more sessions coming up soon so […]
Conservation Work Updates
Lissotriton Vulgaris (Smooth Newts) Sotted by Unofficial Newt Survey on 7 May 2023 Statistics Length: 7-11cmAverage lifespan: 6 years Conservation status Protected in the UK under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981.
Our volunteer team has been working very hard this month to re open the lost orchard which has ben engulfed by nearby bramble and completely taken over and drowned. With a lot of hard graft, volunteers made significant headway this month to open it back up and so work can […]
Volunteering is back in 2023 thanks to both the WMCA and the Selly Oak NNS fund. We are on site every Wedneday and Friday tackling a range of issues that built up over winter and working on continued opening up of the lost orchard area. So far we have:
Harry Gray, our local river ecologist has been out with volunteers today checking out the health of the River Rea by monitoring the insect species living in it. The team were able to monitor Cased Caddisfly, Mayfly, Stoneflies and Freshwater Shrimp on the site at Willow Bridge. The 3 month […]
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 […]
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 […]
