Coming to one of our work parties? Wear sturdy shoes, long trousers and work gloves. We provide tools like shears, clippers and litter pickers, plus some longer, thick gloves for thorny work. We usually stop midway for a tea and coffee break.
We are going to do a pop up stall on climate change and planet before profit on outside Waitrose. This is just before the canal festival gets under way. We can also have postcards on planet before profit.
We are planning an Orchard awareness day – depending on heatwaves…. It depends on whether we have several more heatwaves and everything is shrivelled up or if we still have some butterflies and flowers! We’ll do some games for children, identification sheets of flowers and butterflies and also counting the number of apples per tree […]
We’ll be scything and raking our bee-friendly site at Soulbury road bank
We’ll be scything and raking the grass, and cutting back some of the hawthorn
We’ll be trimming the hedge at Corbet ride and Knaves hill
We’ll be planting knapweed for the marble white butterflies and cutting back hawthorn
We’ll have a stall in Parson’s close on water pollution and invertebrates, and campaigning on water quality
We’ll be working on our bee-friendly sites at Woodman close (beside Hockliffe road) and the bridge over the brook, and possibly Carina drive as well
We’ll be scything and raking and cutting back