Work Party, 9/1/22
A fantastic turnout of 15 volunteers (including 5 starters) helped to complete the planting of whips kindly funded by Rushcliffe Nature Conservation Special Interest Group. Having completed the northern-most third…
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Work Party 12/12/21
6 adults and 2 youngsters enjoyed this mild sunny morning and made a start on planting whips inside the fence along the western boundary, beginning at the north entrance. The…
Work Party 28/11/21
This morning we enjoyed crisp, cold, calm weather to make a start on this winter’s planting marathon. Because of generous funding, we have now taken delivery of approximately 600 whips…
Work Party 24/10/21
Today we continued work removing invasive Sycamore, this time towards the northern end of the site. We used a tree popper for uprooting some of the smaller specimens and saws…
Work Party 26/09/21
This was the first work party of the autumn season. We enjoyed fine weather, with enough shade inside the wood to make life comfortable. The main task was thinning young…
Work party 25/07/2021
This was the final scheduled work party of the summer, when we continue to be restricted because of bird nesting. Therefore the main focus was on clearing the official paths…
Work Party 27/06/2021
Todays’ Work Party led by Bill consisted of Mike, Sal, welcome newcomers Jane and Jamie with Nick kindly providing us with 2 scythes from Skylarks on which he gave a demonstration…
Work Party 23/05/2021
Sunday’s Work Party was led by Richard. We split into two sub-groups on entering the wood, one sub-group concentrating on path edging, and the other picking up the other tasks.…
Work Party 25/04/2021
Todays’ Work Party was split into 2 sub-groups to comply with the ‘Rule of 6’, one sub-group led by Bill and the other by Richard. Bill, Mike and Lucie took water for the trial…
Work Party 28/03/2021
It was great to hold a work party again after the latest lockdown, and we were fortunate that the areas we worked in were largely sheltered from the strong south-westerly.…
