On Wednesday the Glasgow Mid Week Group joined forces with The Friends of Maxwell Park and Glasgow City Council to diversify Maxwell Park pond in the south side of Glasgow. Maxwell Park pond was the first in Glasgow to be ...
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Conservation Volunteer Team
Making willow while the sun shines
I've been involved in some willow weaving projects in the past but not on the scale of the structure we recently created for Mount Carmel Primary School in Kilmarnock!
Actually, this story goes further back than last week ...
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Busy year of Community Learning and Development in Natural Communities
Natural Communities trainee Andy Ruck has been reflecting on a hectic year working in Community Learning and Development & Environmental Community engagement. See what he has been up to here, and you can find out more at ...
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Hays Park 27th, 28th and 29th January 2015
This week we were working in Hays Park.
Hays Park is a small green space in a residential area in Niddrie. Here we were cutting back the bush's, weeding flower beds, litter picking and just giving the place a good tidy ...
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Peat Bog Restoration 21st and 22nd January 2015
So this week we were back at Easter Inch Moss in Seafield (West Lothian) continuing our bog restoration work.
This week we moved into compartment 2, removing trees and saplings, again we used the trunks, twigs and branches ...
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