Feb 15, 2022 | Events, Nature Blog
Sarratt Wildlife Volunteers On Sunday January 9th we were again working at Quickmoor Pond. The weather was dry and quite fair after a drenching Saturday, and we were very pleased that several of the local residents turned out to help so there were about 15 of us. We...
Feb 15, 2022 | Nature Blog, News
The Queen’s Green Canopy – a fabulous nationwide tree planting initiative In 2022, it will be our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and it is being celebrated in what I would consider to be the best of ways: by planting trees across the nation. Trees are the green anchors of...
Jan 24, 2022 | Nature Blog, News
Round up of 2021 in the Community Garden 2021 has been a year of growth in every sense. We started with a glorious blank canvas of 22 composted beds, separated by woodchip paths, which had been marked out and filled the previous Autumn and Winter. These were gradually...
Jan 3, 2022 | Events, Nature Blog, News
Community Garden, December Update There’s nothing growing above ground this month (though hopefully things are happening beneath). Bulbs are in, paths are re-chipped, dahlias are cut down, beds are mulched and tools are put away. Two excitements this month have been...
Dec 2, 2021 | Nature Blog, News
Community Garden Update November 2021 November has been a surprisingly rewarding month in the Community Garden. Having assumed that, once the regular picking was over, there was little of interest to do, I couldn’t have been more wrong. Once the garden was cleared of...
Dec 1, 2021 | Nature Blog, News, Out & About
Ash die back in Mount Wood and elsewhere. The permitted path in Mount Wood over the river towards Chenies has a lot of small trees and a few big ones which have died. These are all ash and infected with ash die back. Ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) is a fungus...
