Month: March 2018

All sorts of good stuff has been happening over the past week with Dave and team finishing the ploughing of plots, digging the pond in the new wildlife area and levelling the car park on East. The first of the bat and bird boxes have gone up and we have received the 420 trees from The Woodland Trust for the first new wildlife hedges which are to be planted on Monday with the help of the Eastland’s School children.

We are delighted to be able to report how fabulous and ready for planting the site is looking. Thanks to RBC for fulfilling their commitment to us and to Dave for his brilliant skills in clearing all of the old plots and getting us fully up to speed for the new season. Never seen the site looking so good!

We are delighted to report that the 420 wildlife trees that we have been lucky enough to get from The Woodland Trust have now arrived. We are going to be planting them and establishing a wildlife friendly hedgerow in plot No 1 (The Secret Garden) to further enhance this wildife friendly space. As one of our many community initiatives, the children from Eastlands’ School will be popping throughout the planting day in order to help us plant the hedgerow and to get an understanding of the importance of respecting and helping nature. This hedgerow further establishes plot No1 (and in turn) the allotments as a very important wildlife corridor and link in to the Local Wildlife Sites that are currently being established around our site.

A huge thank you to Ken on Plot 89 for very kindly (and expertly) making us a bird box and a bat box to help us expand the wildlife friendly areas on site. Above and beyond, thanks Ken.