Today we went to Woodside Meadow which is a meadow created at an amenities area near Great Western Road. We managed to get eleven volunteers out in total today which made for a really good day.
The site
The site
The groups main task was to rake the cuttings on the meadow and place them into a skip. This was a a very big task and the group did great to get as much as we did done with a little bit to be done by a group next week.
The grass building up in the skip
The grass after it had been raked.
The grass after it had been finished being raked
Our other task was to plant some woodland plants and seeds within a designated area to provide a bit a screen for a fence for a glaze football pitch there was several different types of plants- within the a hundred and fifty we had to plant- including fox glove primrose and hedge woundwort, luckily the ground was soft and these went in without any bother.
Some of the wildflowers we planted
Overall the day was felt to be a good day by the group though they were a little exasperated towards the end but liked the fact they could see what they had done and understood how it would make a difference.
The skip after we had finishedÂ
The skip when we had finished