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 […]
Volunteering
We’ve been back down in TMG thanks to Love Brum this month working on a few more tree plantings and fruit bushes. We got some great plums in the ground and made headway on pushing back the sea of bramble to make more room for species. We’re planning a restorative […]
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 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 […]
We ahven’t updated in while so here is a big gallery of what we’ve been up to! Lots of balsam bashing, path clearance as the brambles sneak back in, painting, leaf prints with wax, blackberry eating and plums!
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 […]
We had a super busy half term this week in Ten Acres with our two volunteering groups! First of all the families in top meadow garden laid down some membrane to supress the bramble roots around the apple tree and reclaim the area for the orchard. The kids loved helping […]
Today was a really busy and active day at Top Meadow garden. We planted lots more primrose and forget me nots. We then moved to the ravine to check on the pond life there and found a variety of pond insects, to add to our flora and fauna catalogue. We […]
