St Ives Estate, Bingley
Today we joined with the Friends of St Ives to prepare an area that will become a meadow. It will be sown to commemorate the centenary of the First World War for visitors to the estate. Our task was to remove scrub from the area which was mainly brambles. We cut and raked the area, and with the cuttings created habitat piles. A machine will now be able to further prepare the soil ready for the sowing.
We also took our coppiced wood to the site, some of this was taken up to the kilns and the remainder will be pulled up the hill by the working horse.
Today we worked with 14 volunteers.
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