Although we had less volunteers today, nine in total, we worked on several different projects in different places within the wood. Tim went off to do a survey of all the ash trees – more about that in a later post – pathways to the east were being finished with chippings  and work was started […]

And then back to mud, just as things were slowly drying out! Making the pathways from cut round wood or ‘corduroy’ as we call it, has made a tremendous difference to being able to move around the wood safely. That at least is a very positive part of our mornings work – even though it […]

This week saw a special event after the mornings work, an assessment of last weekends strong winds and some more beautiful flowers emerging. The wind had blown down some large trees around the village but our wood managed to escape any serious damage. A large oak branch fell on the east path going towards the […]

The woodland is still very muddy underfoot despite a few days of sunshine. The party continues their work on the pathways and talk about next Monday’s Easter bank holiday when we will not be meeting up. A few bluebells and wood anemones are beginning to open up and two Buzzards were seen circling above the […]

Repairs and woodwork are definitely part of our remit and are actually incredibly satisfying to do. One of the really good things about our work on a Monday morning is the sense that what ever we do will be subsumed by the woodland at some point in the future and unlike most of our efforts […]

This was the first week that Tim and I took over from John. It had been an incredibly wet winter and this week was also one of the first where the group of volunteers were able to meet since our Christmas celebration. As many of the pathways were very muddy, we decided to continue with […]