Regular readers? of this blog may be forgiven for thinking
everything happens in Borrowdale! but North
Lakes covers a lot of
ground and this week our Loweswater based ranger team, Dan and Paul headed even
further west to Ennerdale Bridge to start on an exciting new community project. At the
very heart of the village sits the small local primary school and our project
over the next few weeks is to re design and refurbish the school garden to make it a more interesting
space for the children to play, learn and most of all have fun!
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The clever stuff, designing the new garden and advising on
useful planting schemes will be done by our fantastic gardener at Wordsworth
House and Garden, Amanda and her small talented team of volunteers,
working with the staff, parents and children and will include areas for quite
sitting, noisy play, bug hunts and mini beast safaris
The Ranger team and regular Thursday volunteers will carry
out the physical tasks of removing unwanted trees and refreshing the hard
landscaping, walls and seating areas.
First task before the major works got under way was to clear
an area of shrubs and trees so that a living willow hide could be constructed, (just
the right size for kids but small enough to keep adults out!) Dan and Paul
spent half a damp morning removing a trailer load of trees, and their stumps (much harder than we thought) shrubs and branches
to create this space and the effect was immediately noticeable
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The hide has now been built and will grow with time to create a cool, shady
secret place.
This is just the start of an exciting project, involving a wide range of staff and volunteers, we even had our senior forester Martin kindly health check the trees!! so check back
here often and see how we’re getting on way out west, next on the agenda is to remove crumbling facing stone from the retaining walls and replace with new sandstone, building in lots of planting spaces and bug houses
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