Join us on a work party

dynamic, Work Parties - By fosh_admin on Sunday, January 31, 2010 - 00:57

On the 4th Sunday of each month we meet at the top of Peveril Drive at approximately 09:45, so we can get the tools up the hill, to start work for 10:00.
Our normal work parties are from 10:00am till about 15:00 depending on light and weather conditions, however if you can only spare a couple of hours thats fine with us.
Jobs vary from planting hedging, tidying up litter and felling fast growing sycamores.
Gloves and other equipment is provided. We decide on what to do in consultation with Notts Wildlife Trust and their people often work with us.

If you would like to join us our next work party is: 26th May 2013
work parties for the next few months are below :-

23rd June 2013
28th July 2013
*** No work party August***
22nd Sept 2013
27th Oct 2013
24th Nov 2013
****No work party December*** Christmas walk to be confirmed

Picture by Allan Wells
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Resurfacing pathways
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2013-03-18 10:58.

There is no such thing as too much mud, only inappropriate footware, and in a few weeks time the paths will have dried out.

Lets not make the woodland any more like the suburb that we've just climbed away from.

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Stoning the paths
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2013-03-17 01:02.

I did a straw poll on a small number of dog walkers (and will try more) as to the idea of parking a cubic yard of fine hardcore in the grass patch next to my house with a waterproof notice, and each walker taking half a dozen stones up to drop into muddy patches.
They not only said that they would, they said they would make a practice of bringing a string bag on each walk to carry up a lot more than half a dozen.

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Resurfacing pathways
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 2013-03-17 00:52.

Ive been doing some solitary work, laying stones down on the path through the wood. It is the only solution after a 2012-2013 year of rain like we have had. The stones I laid at the Peveril Drive Gate are still good after 2 winters, despite being on a slope. The first sections of the path are already more walkable with the few bucket loads of stones that have gone down. Broken up mortar and breezeblock are good because they absorb water well and grip the clay completely. Round river pebbles of the sort found on the hill sink into the clay and dont stick, but they are still useful. the top of the hill has almost no stones because it has a coating of winter 'green manure', but the slope down to Peveril is very stony thanks to all the rain that has washed down (and nothing planted there. If new crops are planted with the Spring, that is the end of gathering stones.