This week we were at Donkey Field Orchard and Blackford Pond.
At Donkey Field we spent most of our time shovelling hardcore, raking it and stamping it down. On the Wednesday we briefly had a chance to see two rare sights, ...
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Archives for November 2009
Stirling High School
During the last week we travelled - a short distance - to Stirling High School to complete a garden project initiated by the School's Eco team in collaboration with Torbrex Community Council. The project was to take into ...
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Forres Academy (12-23 Oct)
VOs and midweek group at Inverness have just finished a 2 week stint in Forres, giving the courtyard garden at Forres academy a much needed makeover... in addition to general weeding and tidy up we constructed a compost bin ...
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Winter path work
The weather has truly turned into winter this week (you can see your breath inside the office), and we were back at donkey field. It didn't look too promising in the morning, but by the time we reached the site on both ...
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Blackness Community Park
Over the last two weeks we have traveled to Blackness Community Park in Bo'ness, West Lothian. Our tasks were to cut back gorse, pond maintenance and planting a wildflower meadow.
Tackling gorse was a prickly problem. ...
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