by Joy Winstanley | Dec 8, 2014 | Activities, Projects |
Fruit Trees Red Rose Forest have given us 10 mixed fruit trees to add to our Community Orchard. They are apple, pear, cherry and plum trees and are about six feet tall. The weather on Sunday was cold but sunny and we were able to get the trees planted. We also did...
by Joy Winstanley | Dec 2, 2014 | Activities, blog, Projects |
Work in the Wildlife Garden. We were supposed to be having a Big Tree Plant today but despite putting up posters we had no members of the public for this event. SO— we decided to re-advertise it and move the event to next Sunday 7th December. The Friends who...
by Joy Winstanley | Feb 26, 2014 | Projects |
Making Floating Islands Our cloud making Friends were preparing for the working weekend. On 15th. & 16th.February a group of Friends constructed floating islands, fish sanctuaries and small pontoons and put these on the lake. Plastic bottles were filled with...
by Joy Winstanley | Feb 3, 2014 | Projects |
Making Clouds? Are they making clouds? Watch this...
by Joy Winstanley | Jan 31, 2014 | Projects |
We are constructing some floating islands to help to purify the water in the lake. During the winter months the water in the lake is very clear. This causes a problem for the fish as they can easily be seen and caught by birds, particularly diving birds like passing...
by admin | Jan 6, 2014 | Projects |
Building the new pontoon. Many years ago the Friends put some pontoons at the far end of the lake, near the Nature reserve. The pontoons provide safe places for the birds to sleep and nest. Over the years the wood rotted and the pontoons needed drastic work doing to...
