VIP guests

Spent a pleasant but chilly morning on a walking tour of Butterley and the Wessenden valley with John Tucker, director of woodland creation for the Woodland Trust, and Doug Edmondson, woodland creation advisor for the Woodland Trust. Our planting this year has been made possible by their support, and they were keen to see our past and present efforts. They were particularly impressed by the care we put into the management of mature planting sites.

Why does it always rain on we?

Another classy photo by Geoff with his rather good Samsung NX (sponsorship please?)

Another Saturday morning, and guess what it rained, quite a lot. Today we were above Marsden creating a couple of small shelter belts for fields. We were: myself, Ben the younger, Ben the elder, Jess, Cath, Dianne and Lizzie the dog, Duncan and Harvey the dog, Stephen, Dave, Geoff, Brian, Peter W., Chris, Hap, Adrian, Ros, Steve , Tanya, John and Philip. An astonishing number considering how wet it was. Well done all. We planted 300 odd trees, and ate home made mincemeat slice.

Volunteers modelling new wet look CVTS uniform.

Farewell to Scout Top

This week were were finishing up at Scout Top. We were: Stephen, Alison, Francesco, Hap, Andrew, Iain, Philip, Peter T., Peter W., Duncan and Harvey the dog, Dianne and Lizzie the Dog, Steve, Geoff, myself, Dave and Ros.

We planted the remaining 30 Common Oak, 30 Sessile Oak, 25 Whitebeam, 30 Crab Apple, 30 Common Alder and 45 Downy Birch.

Cake was apple sponge, with apples from our nursery.

It was a bit damp, but not disastrously so.

Log retrieval

Just for the sake of completeness of record, Dave and I went back to Throstle Green Farm to retrieve all the logs cut last weekend. They are now safely drying in our log store.