To go with our new name, we've also got a new office. You'll now find us at The Cemetery Gatehouse at Bedford Cemetery, and the minibus leaves from here in the mornings for Weekday Conservation Team tasks.Our address is ...
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Archives for 2012
The Conservation Volunteers
BTCV has been working for over 50 years to help local people reclaim green places. From May 1st, we will have a different way of introducing ourselves.Right now, with cuts in public expenditure, and one third of the UK's ...
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Green Man Garden gets even greener
A brave band of people faced the rain on Saturday 28th April to plant up the raised beds in the Green Man Garden in Kempston. This project is ongoing through the year and will involve regular drop-in gardening sessions as ...
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More bars to raise!
Following an earlier post about Raising the Bar - a project at Addison Howard Park where we constructed 2 raised beds and created a bog pond, on 13th Feb we went back and raised more bars (well rails actually) and constructed ...
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Hedgelaying at Warden Hill
This winter (well at least for some of it) we have been hedgelaying at Warden Hill, Luton.Above: Martin and Joe working away.From the corner of The Slipe (where we layed 530m of hedge last year) along the edge of Warden Hill ...
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New year, new skills
The weather may be grey and cold, but there's always plenty to be getting on with on the community allotment. A few weeks ago, Katy shared her skills by giving the group a masterclass on pruning fruit trees. Here she is ...
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