Tuesday 16th November;
Polkemmet; Arrived at site; Sterling where already there when we arrived; loaded up with tools & trees for a day of planting; planted till lunch; after lunch Racheal took volunteers out for a ...
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Hail, Diggers and Flying Golf Balls!
A mixed bag of projects for us this week. Tuesday saw us up Corstorphine Hill for more Spirea clearance, poor weather meant a tricky task for Kate to get the fire started, but as always, she pulled through with a mixture of ...
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‘It looks a bit brighter over there’
Well another wet week of finishing projects.
On Tuesday we were at the Hermitage for the final time - completing the hurdles by the river path. As the posts were put in 2 weeks ago, all that remained to do was finish ...
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Farewell Pond!
So last week:
Tuesday we were down again at the Hermitage of Braid, carrying on with the weaving of hurdles to try and reconstruct the river bank and combat erosion.
Despite telling everyone that we would be working in, ...
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Hurdles and methane
On Tuesday we started an exiting new project repairing the bank of the river in the Hermitage of Braid.
There is large erosion alongside the path which has become a bit of a hazard for walkers. We are putting hurdles in at ...
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