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For all tasks: meet on site at 10am. We usually work until 3.30pm - 4pm.
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Sunday 20 November: Thurlby Wood (private wood) *
A good place for our second winter task, visiting one of our longest standing sites. In this super privately owned wood near Gainsborough the day’s work is likely to include cutting back encroaching scrub for the benefit of wild flowers and coppicing.
Meet at the wood entrance (a short way along the track from the road).
Grid ref: SK 848 862, w3w overlaid.scramble.approvals
Contact: Jonathan 07708 016019
A good place for our second winter task, visiting one of our longest standing sites. In this super privately owned wood near Gainsborough the day’s work is likely to include cutting back encroaching scrub for the benefit of wild flowers and coppicing.
Meet at the wood entrance (a short way along the track from the road).
Grid ref: SK 848 862, w3w overlaid.scramble.approvals
Contact: Jonathan 07708 016019
Sunday 4 December: Hartsholme Country Park (City of Lincoln Council)
Hedgelaying, an ancient art, is our task for today. It’s a satisfying job, where it’s often best to work in pairs. To lay a hedge we cut part way through the stems then bend them to the horizontal. This encourages new shoots to grow upwards, creating a thicker hedge that is stock proof and a good habitat for wildlife.
Meet at Hartsholme Rangers' Office (opposite cafe).
Grid ref SK 946 695, w3w gets.officials.mindset (LN6 0EY)
Contact: Julian 07900 805049
Hedgelaying, an ancient art, is our task for today. It’s a satisfying job, where it’s often best to work in pairs. To lay a hedge we cut part way through the stems then bend them to the horizontal. This encourages new shoots to grow upwards, creating a thicker hedge that is stock proof and a good habitat for wildlife.
Meet at Hartsholme Rangers' Office (opposite cafe).
Grid ref SK 946 695, w3w gets.officials.mindset (LN6 0EY)
Contact: Julian 07900 805049
Sunday 18 December: Tunman Wood (Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust)
This is one of our regular winter sites. We will continue with coppicing and ride management to maintain an open habitat. As it is quite a large wood we work in a different part of it each year. Last spring some of us enjoyed a walk here one evening to see the fantastic display of bluebells the wood is famed for.
Meet at the Wardens' office, Whisby Nature Park.
Grid ref SK 911 663, w3w group.darting.dumplings
Contact: Niamh 07789 834150
This is one of our regular winter sites. We will continue with coppicing and ride management to maintain an open habitat. As it is quite a large wood we work in a different part of it each year. Last spring some of us enjoyed a walk here one evening to see the fantastic display of bluebells the wood is famed for.
Meet at the Wardens' office, Whisby Nature Park.
Grid ref SK 911 663, w3w group.darting.dumplings
Contact: Niamh 07789 834150
Tuesday 27 December: Thurlby Wood (private wood) *
Too much rich Christmas food? Come and blow away the cobwebs and get some fresh air in our second trip of the winter to this lovely wood. Help Colin, the wood’s custodian (as he describes himself), with seasonal winter work. We will probably be coppicing and clearing areas of scrub to let more light reach the woodland floor.
Meet at the wood entrance (a short way along the track from the road).
Grid ref: SK 848 862, w3w overlaid.scramble.approvals
Contact: Jude 07770 742471
Too much rich Christmas food? Come and blow away the cobwebs and get some fresh air in our second trip of the winter to this lovely wood. Help Colin, the wood’s custodian (as he describes himself), with seasonal winter work. We will probably be coppicing and clearing areas of scrub to let more light reach the woodland floor.
Meet at the wood entrance (a short way along the track from the road).
Grid ref: SK 848 862, w3w overlaid.scramble.approvals
Contact: Jude 07770 742471
Sunday 8 January: Hillside Community Gardens, Lincoln (Green Synergy)
This ever-developing innovative community garden is our location for today and we will help out with whatever work they are currently doing. If you haven’t been here in a while you will probably be surprised at how much the gardens have evolved.
Meet at Green Synergy's office: 49 Roman Pavement, LN2 5RD.
w3w wiping.blues.poems
Contact: Lorna 07986 272785
This ever-developing innovative community garden is our location for today and we will help out with whatever work they are currently doing. If you haven’t been here in a while you will probably be surprised at how much the gardens have evolved.
Meet at Green Synergy's office: 49 Roman Pavement, LN2 5RD.
w3w wiping.blues.poems
Contact: Lorna 07986 272785
Sunday 22 January: Horncastle Community Wood (Lincolnshire County Council)
This small community wood planted by volunteers in 2002 has a wildlife pond, fruit trees and a willow bed. Today we will be helping to widen some of the woodland rides and to thin out some of the smaller trees. Our last trip here was in 2013 so we look forward to seeing how it has changed.
Meet at the car park at the wood.
Grid ref TF 262 679; w3w display.rounds.placidly
Contact: Nicola 07900 805149
This small community wood planted by volunteers in 2002 has a wildlife pond, fruit trees and a willow bed. Today we will be helping to widen some of the woodland rides and to thin out some of the smaller trees. Our last trip here was in 2013 so we look forward to seeing how it has changed.
Meet at the car park at the wood.
Grid ref TF 262 679; w3w display.rounds.placidly
Contact: Nicola 07900 805149
Sunday 5 February: South Witham Marsh (Hill Holt Wood)
A new site for us. This 10-acre wet grassland site, managed by Hill Holt Wood, includes marshy grasslands, ponds and woodland. Seasonal winter work will be the order of the day, but exactly what we will be doing will depend on how their programme of works has progressed over the winter.
Meet at the entrance to the site footpath.
Grid ref... w3w pasting.chugging.braved
Contact: Sophie 07891 846961
A new site for us. This 10-acre wet grassland site, managed by Hill Holt Wood, includes marshy grasslands, ponds and woodland. Seasonal winter work will be the order of the day, but exactly what we will be doing will depend on how their programme of works has progressed over the winter.
Meet at the entrance to the site footpath.
Grid ref... w3w pasting.chugging.braved
Contact: Sophie 07891 846961
Sunday 19 February: Scotgrove Wood (Forestry Commission)
Another site that we have been going to for many years. We will carry on with our work of cutting back regrowth to keep the rides clear and opening up glades to improve the light levels around the woodland edges for the benefit of the flora and fauna that thrive in these spaces.
Meet at the wood entrance just past Scotgrove Farm (Henry Lane).
Grid ref TF 130 698; w3w tags.built.reverses
Contact: Danielle 07850 911492
Another site that we have been going to for many years. We will carry on with our work of cutting back regrowth to keep the rides clear and opening up glades to improve the light levels around the woodland edges for the benefit of the flora and fauna that thrive in these spaces.
Meet at the wood entrance just past Scotgrove Farm (Henry Lane).
Grid ref TF 130 698; w3w tags.built.reverses
Contact: Danielle 07850 911492
* These tasks raise funds for the group.
