It is Volunteers Week this week and that means we get an extra chance to say an EXTRA BIG THANK YOU to all our volunteers for all the hard work they put in.
Special thanks go to Duncs for getting the tools ready, Clare ...
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Green Man Garden springs back into life
Now that the weather has dried up, we're finally attempting to finish of the mural at the Green Man Garden. Most of the paint got washed off by torrential rain after the big community painting day back in the autumn, so it's ...
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Another year, another hedge layed!
Well, you might even be able to say 3 hedges as 3 seperate secti?ons were completed recently at Warden Hill SSSI, Luton on behalf of Luton Borough Council.
Two sections were seperated by virtue of a fence & kissing ...
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Well Head County Wildlife Site
Another winter of scrub management has come to an end recently. It ends in March because we are unable to do this kind of work during the bird nesting season.
Well Head County Wildlife Site (CWS), near Totternhoe, is a ...
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Love Your Garden!
On Wednesday 13th Feb, a (very!) hardy band of volunteers joined us for a morning in the Green Man Garden, keen to find out more about growing their own food and improving their gardens. Below - reconstructing the ...
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Carlton fencing & hedge laying
The Weekday Conservation Team recently carried out work for Carlton with Chellington Parish Council. They saw our advert in the January issue of the Parish Council Newsletter. The work carried out included formalising the ...
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Compost stables!
The Weekday Conservation Team and their skills were needed at the Green Man Garden at Addison Howard Park during October. Compost bins were needed. These are easy to build if you know how.
We used wooden pallets for the ...
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I’m not going to make a joke about being batty for the garden…
Back in sunny, warm, September, we welcomed lots of visitors to the Green Man Garden for a Bat Workshop.Diana from the Beds Bat Group came along to give us a talk about bats, and answered plenty of questions from the group ...
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Join in, feel good
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All the hard work is worthwhile!
The Brickhill Community Allotment is really starting to take shape now and reward the group's hard work! The ground is still very heavy clay, so here Debbie is planting a green manure crop to help us improve the soil quality. ...
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