High Batts Nature Reserve
Twelve members tackled Himalayan Balsam at the Muck-In Morning on Saturday 2nd July 2022 on the riverbank in Pennycroft. Pulling up invasive balsam is a tiring but rewarding and necessary task. Volunteers were serenaded by a Garden Warbler as they
A benevolent sun shone down on the volunteers who turned up to muck in on Saturday 30th April. The main task was raking up cut grass, which was then taken away by dumper truck. We finished the morning removing tree
Tasks on the last Muck-In Morning of 2021 included removing tree guards on Pennypot, patch repairs to the access track, work on bee hotels, and pollarding trees next to the ride. Claire Slator provided a delicious chili lunch, as a
(Originally posted March 2019). We had a really successful Muck-in Morning on 9th March 2019. Seventeen members turned up in the damp and drizzle, and donned yellow jackets for a session of cutting back around the Mound viewing area and
Thanks to all volunteers who turned out for the bracken and balsam bashing morning. It was warm work, but that didn’t stop them doing a fantastic job, as you can see from the before and after pictures. It was nice
(Originally posted October 2016). Eighteen members, from the young to the not-so-young, turned out on Saturday 29th October for a morning of coppicing, raking, brash piling and bonfiring. The amount of work which was done was fantastic, and Colin was
(Originally posted 28th May 2016). Sixteen members turned out for a morning of bracken-bashing on Saturday 28th May 2016. Although most were novices at the task, everyone showed a natural aptitude for it, and at the end Colin Slator pronounced