So as you are aware, Kerr has now finished up his 6 month placement with us and as you might expect I have already fallen behind with the blog - oops.
During April the volunteers have been a busy bunch. The Tuesday group ...
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Tarzan and the barrowers
Well this will be a quick wee blog because a) lets be honest its Tuesday already and b) I wasn't really out much last week - so most of it is hearsay.
This week heralded the start of the long awaited 'swinging from trees' ...
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Spring has sprung, and cleanings begun!
Tuesday was once more at Dunbar. More brash piling and tree transplanting in the morning. There was room for two more wheel barrow loads of trees at the edge of the pond. These got planted with remarkable speed so that by ...
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Mulching back in the big bad woods
On Tuesday we were at Leith Links Children's Orchard doing a variety of tasks including tree mulching and planting. The first job was to scrape the turf away from the base of each tree which took a little more effort than I ...
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Life’s a picnic… bench
Thursday was so special that it gets its own blog entry (or Phil wasn't out and so hasnt a clue what happened). Today we we're installing 3 picnic benches at Colinton Dell to replace the plastic ones that had thoughtfully ...
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