A Good Day to be Beside the Fire

Despite the cold and awful weather forecast we had another great turnout of willing volunteers to help at Foxglove today. We spilt into two groups to complete a couple of different tasks around the reserve. The first group spent the day finishing off the job of pollarding and coppicing around net ride 29. They worked hard clearing up the trees that had been felled on Saturday and another, that Brian called “little”, Silver Birch that Matt felled today.

The second group got stuck into the ongoing task of this year’s coppice block. Great progress was made again today and in places you can now see through to the ponds on the far side of the block.

Whilst some of the volunteers took a well-deserved lunch break the children from the Dales school came out to join us. They made a really useful contribution, chopping up and burning off the trees that had been felled by the volunteers.

Everyone has been working so hard on this task over the last couple of months we really are making amazing progress. A big thank you to everyone who came down today it really is appreciated!