We saw new plants and new faces this week in Top Meadow Garden, planting meadowsweet, babbingtons leek and willowherb. We also got out our bug hunting kits and looked at lots of bugs while we were doing so (and found plenty of worms!).
Volunteering
Volunteers continued to restore the river bank last week and clear the built up deadwood and bramble from the riverside making room for young saplings, native trees and plants. Its starting to look really beautiful and they have created another little walk through of the wooded area upon the bank.
We planted mroe wild strawberries today in the top meadow garden and decided upon laying a new path through one of the beds as the children were naturally drawn to cross the beds at this point. We made a few of our own pots using paper and pot shapers and […]
Forest Futures volunteers continued work on Ten Acres this week and along the overgrown banks near riverbrook meadow/broadmeadow they discovered a large old apple tree deep in the overgrowth, surrounded by beautiful lilac trees previously obscured and a few wild dog roses. A stunnig hidden grove of beauty now on […]
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 […]
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 […]
This week we looked at sticker books and had a go at planting some seeds to nuture until they are ready for the garden. We planted sorrel, lambs lettuce, good king henry and rocket. Meanwhile the digging team got to work creating a big circle to map out the middle […]
We were back in top meadow garden today in ten acres and it was a beautiful sunny day! We had a picnic mat out, some tasty snacks and we read a beautiful book together in the sunshine. There was lots of woodland play and adventures and the older kids managed […]
We went out on our first official litter pick of the year this weekend with the new litter picking team in Ten Acres and we’re pleased to collect and dispose of 5 full bin bags of litter (and a motorbike windshield). The park side of Ten Acres was actually in […]
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 […]
