Happy New Year one and all! We are back with a new post, and two new Volunteers. We said Goodbye to our Star of the Future Award winner Nerea. Over the past two month we have been busy grading trees, making trenches and ...
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Youth in Action
A Sea of Red and Yellow – October 2015
Winter is slowly creeping in. The wind is picking up and the rain has become a permanent feature. Nevertheless we keep on working. We are digging up trees, grading them and heeling them into sand for winter storage.
October, ...
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New Arrivals – September 2015
In September we were joined by Theresa from Germany and Kristian from Denmark. Their first month is over and they too are ready to share their experiences.
We continue seed collecting and have started digging up our first ...
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Autumn Is Dawning – August 2015
The seed collecting season is officially under way. We have been busy traveling the north coast collecting Downy Birch, Hazel and Hawthorn.
Collecting Downy Birch on the Glenntop Road. From Left to Right: Diego ...
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Seed Collecting Has Started – Summer 2015
In July we started collecting Wild Cherry seeds from Crawfordsburn Country Park and our own orchard in the nursery. We said 'Goodbye' to Jon and are awaiting new arrivals in September.
From left to right: Nerea ...
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A Nursery in Bloom – Summer 2015
Summer! We are preparing beds and have started to collect the first cherries of this year's seed collecting season. While Jon has entered his last month Nerea has just experienced her first.
Among the Poppies - ...
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Through A Cold Spring – April & May 2015
The End of May also marked the end of the projects of Sophie and Javier who have been with us for the past six months. On Friday last we welcomed our new arrival Nerea, from Spain.
Sophie's Last Day. From left to ...
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The Beginning of 2015 – A New Arrival
It has been a while since the last post but we have been busy; making up orders, lining out trees, sowing seeds, basically getting the nursery ready for a new season. We also had a new arrival, Jon from Denmark and our ...
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2014 Turning 2015
Happy (belated) New Year, we survived the festive season and are ready for a new year of sowing, growing and weeding.
December brought us two new volunteers, one from Denmark and one from Spain.
We are digging up trees, ...
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November 2014 – Time to Prepare for Winter
The year is nearly out, in the nursery we have started to dig up trees, grade and bundle them. The last seeds are being stratified and the Volunteers are looking forward to our new arrivals on 07.12.14.
Dulce:
November ...
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