EVERY FRIDAY* 10am to 2pm @ Top Meadow Garden *Starts 1st March 2024, excludes school holidays. Join us in the development of the Top Meadow Garden a unique native only forest garden with edible and rare species that sits along the River Rea in Ten Acres. Join Felipe (Spring to […]
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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 […]
We are pleased to announce we will once again be running the Ten Acres Snowflake Trail this year in the Ten Acres Woodland Pathway in Stirchley. Join us on Saturday 23rd December from 9am to find as many snowflakes as you can and pick one out to take home with […]
We welcome two new noticeboards to the Ten Acres site this month thanks to volunteers, Ranger Jan, Ranger Dean and the BCC work crew. They are already being very well used by the community at both ends of Ten Acres. Hurrah! The boards will prioritise in this order: The boards […]
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:
We are pleased to announce that we have won £1000 funding from the Love Brum November vote! This will earn us 10 additional Top Meadow Garden sessions with coordinator Felipe Molina in Ten Acres and help us get some much needed additional fruit trees and bushes in in the coming […]
Top meadow garden is now home to a small fairy village nestled on and around the hibernaculum using natural materials to decorate thier ‘gardens’ thanks to the kids of the top meadow gardening club! Can you spot them on your next trip out in ten acres ?
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 […]