Volunteers had already been at work over the last year, opening up the old tennis court and pond areas. The water was too deep for us to extract this fallen willow but the contractor’s machine was able to drag it out for us. We had also cut back […]
First, local contractors mowed some areas of grass, reed, bramble and blackthorn suckers. The north end of this compartment is grass rather than reed since it’s drier, thanks to shingle washed across during a storm in the 20s. In the last few years, this grassland has been taken […]
We asked our local contractors to mow the dead reed, blackthorn suckers and the sprouting Alexanders. A work party in March will rake and burn the dead stuff in a gradual process of reduction of coarse material since we hope eventually to graze this area. Last winter they […]
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