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
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:
Thanks to funding form the West Midlands Combined Authority via the Heart of England Community Foundation we are pleased to announce two FREE childrens storytelling events in Top Meadow Garden this year. Join us on 9th and 16th july at 1:30PM in top meadow garden on the woodland path in […]
This week we spent time on the Himalayan Balsam attacking the top meadow garden and river banks. Volunteers spent time pulling up each stem and snapping the roots, carefully laying them in existing patches to prevent any accidental spread. We also had a quick look at the muddy path which […]
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 […]
This week volunteers took to the river bank by Sloe Bridge to begin work clearing the layers of dead entangled with the important live dogwood saplings and native field maple. It was hard work as layer upon layer had built up due to several massive crack willows having fallen down […]
This week we continued working on the river bank at the top end of ten acres in Stirchley. There was a lot of built of deadwood in this area blocking the view and the flight paths of birds and causing blockages in the river. The team began work relocating some […]
Work on the river bank of the river rea begins in the top section of Ten Acres this week with volunteers working hard to restore the wooded area thanks to funding from the Selly Oak NNS fund. You’ll find us there every Tuesday 10-2, so please do come along and […]
