By the Session Leader:
Our task in
this morning’s seriously un-February-like weather was the same as last time we worked (out) at Earth
Trust: to weed out the ash saplings in a
– what seemed a – small area of the Arboretum.
Site Warden
Steve had prepared the site with two “horses”
ready for bundling stakes into 10s and binders into 20s:
He gave an excellent
briefing too, as there were so many of us – and new members too.
Cutting the
ash to the ground was the favoured job.
The other half of our task was to produce stakes and binders for hedge
laying. (Stakes were the more valued
product: they, apparently, are in short supply.) Both stakes and binders, of course, had to be
bundled up for delivery, and transported initially by shanks’ pony:
All this was
really very satisfying in itself.
Witness this proud volunteer, sporting new safety goggles:
Look out
(maybe next week) for her new safety helmet and visor. You won’t be able to miss her.
For added
enjoyment-value, at tea-break a delicious ‘ring cake’ – the pastry
chef highly delighted when it came out of the tin in one piece – plus delish
home-made fairy cakes:
The last leg
of the journey for the bundles of rods was to be by wheels: motorised, rugged-terrain wheels. Loading the landie with the produce was a
mite chaotic at times. “One at a time,
please!” came the cry from the roof.
This was the
scene we left behind us, all ready for nature to spring back:
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