Here is Jonathan’s message
Greetings All,
There’ll be a volunteer session at Fairfield Orchard, Fauna and Flora this
Saturday morning, August 13th, starting fresh as a daisy at 10.00am and
finishing exhausted and a bit stinky at 1.00pm. Please come along if you
possibly can for as long as you can manage.
Items on the agenda for this occasion:
* Digging out and cutting back the remaining bramble along the Fauna path.
* Clearing around the new hedge saplings being overwhelmed by surrounding
vegetation down the Pads footpath.
* Digging out any remaining ragwort.
* Clearing around the shed, especially alongside the fence with Fraser’s
garden.
* Checking the shed roof and preparing it to receive the protecting net at
the end of the month.
* Clearing vegetation enveloping shrubs such as broom in the Orchard.
And that’s it for this occasion.
Best wishes,
Jonathan.
Here’s what we did
The session attracted 17 volunteers on a disappointingly overcast and damp morning. This included 4 members of the playground engineering group who installed a replacement balancing beam. The rest of us:
• Cleared around the new hedge saplings along the Pads footpath clearing enveloping vegetation.
• Dug out ragwort from part of the Big Meadow. More to do.
• Noted that the shed roof is in good condition and the fixing of a protective net at the end of the month should be reasonably straightforward.
• Cut back vegetation around the shed especially underneath the fence bounding Fraser’s garden.
• Posted our signs on the fruit trees asking people not to pick the fruit until ripe.
• Reinstated a post alongside one of the new apple trees.
• Cut back vegetation encroaching on the green paths in the Orchard.
• Cleared bindweed from around the broom shrubs.
• Checked and pruned the apple trees.
• Cut back the hedges in front of the Orchard benches to reinstate vistas across the Big Meadow.