Events

This has had to be postponed due to  unexpected work commitments

There will be a brief AGM with reports and votes  followed by a talk from Neil Witney who is a resident of LB and also  senior policy advisor in the  government department of Energy Security and Climate Change. ” Low carbon electricity for the UK : The electricity grid – what needs to happen  by […]

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

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  

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!

 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 […]

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 […]

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..

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 […]

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