Events

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.

  • Work party – Leighton Buzzard station

    Leighton Buzzard Station Station Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be weeding and cutting back brambles and ash saplings on Platform 1  at Leighton Buzzard station, .

  • Work party Vandyke Curve

    Narrow Gauge Railway, Vandyke Curve Vandyke Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be digging up grass at the front of Vandyke Curve to sow scabious seeds and also clearing back brambles . Note the slightly later start time – 10.30am  

  • Wassailing

    Astral Park Community Orchard Leighton Buzzard Community Orchard, Middleton Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    Open to everyone! Wassailing is a midwinter celebration with music, singing, food, mulled cider (or apple juice) and a traditional wassailing ceremony to encourage the apple trees to provide a good harvest in the coming year. Come and join us!

  • Work party – Astral Park

    Astral Park Community Orchard Leighton Buzzard Community Orchard, Middleton Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

     We will be doing a work party at Astral Park Orchard on  1.30pm -4pm. We need to  cut back a lot of hawthorn and blackthorn  and  dig up some hawthorn roots etc and cut back brambles. There will be a range of tasks so you can either get fit or do something gentle and just […]

  • Work party – Knaves Hill

    Knaves Hill Knaves Hill, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    You go down St Marys Way and keep going past the turning on the left to the shop until the railway line is on your right. It is opposite Upper Combe We planted this 100 m mixed hedge of wild rose and hawthorn and blackthorn and dogwood etc about 15 years ago to form a […]

  • Work Party Knaves Hill Hedge

    Knaves Hill Knaves Hill, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    We need to do some cutting back of our hedges before the birds start to  nest. Today we’ll be cutting back Knaves Hiil Hedge in Corbet Ride on the footpath behind no 29 Corbet Ride and close to the shop..

  • Work Party – Astral Park native hedge

    Astral Park native hedge Astral Park, Leighton Buzzard, United Kingdom

    Directdions: go to Astral Park Community centre at the end of Johnson Drive and walk away from LB with the  community centre on your left, go past the pond, through a gap in the hedge and then the Mixed native hedge planted by South Beds FOE is  on the right next to the fence close […]

  • Work Party Astral Park Community Orchard

    Astral Park Community Orchard Leighton Buzzard Community Orchard, Middleton Way, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be cutting back  some hawthorn and doing some planting

  • Work Party – Adams Bottom

    Adams Bottom 197 Heath Road, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be weeding around the primroses so that people can actually see them.

  • Work Party Grange Close

    Grange Close Grange Close/Orchard Drive, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

    We’ll be looking after our  new  native hedge by the railway, weeding and trimming, then  weeding around the apple trees  etc `