Winter to Spring 2007

It has been a very long wet winter for us in Devon. Autumn was beautiful with a bumper crop of nuts and berries. We concentrated on Sweet Chestnut, Hazel, Oak, Field Maple and Hornbeam, but also collected many other types of seed too.

Our second nursery at the Green Lanes Centre got off the ground with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers lending a hand building beds. Across the winter drainage ditches were dug, a pond built, and deer and rabbit fencing erected.

Many new trees were planted out in the surrounding area and plans drawn up for a new 2 acre woodland.

The spring saw us plant many thousands of seedlings and fill the new nursery beds.

Here are some pictures from the last few months. Above right, help with last Autumn's harvest...

Above and right, local children help plant a new area of coppice woodland, mainly Sweet Chestnut and Ash.

Top, straining new deer fencing at the Green Lanes nursery. Below, left to right, tea break on the swing, preparing new nursery beds, more deer fencing and the first seedling goes in.

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