The last few weeks the volunteer group have been carrying out some woodland management at St Edwards Park near Cheddleton. The woodland hear hasn’t seen any management for some time.
What our area has is a quiet hidden community spirit, everyone knows each other and wants to help each other. It is also very welcoming to outsiders - I come from the south and believe me this is no mean thing. We have lovely neighbours and a lovely town.
Pictures taken in Dimmingsdale, in the Churnet Valley. Park at the Ramblers Retreat and do the circular walk from there along the stream and lakes. It is so peaceful, and full of interesting trees and plants, you can lose yourself for a while but not feel totally isolated.
Photos of the fungus walk at Tittesworth today. It was a good little walk for all I think.
Over the past three months the Churnet valley volunteers have been dedicating their time to tackling the invasive Himalayan balsam that has infested our otherwise beautiful valley.
Ok, so I know I haven't been great at keeping you up to date with the progress of the Skills Builder project!!
Now is the time to check out the bluebells. We received an enquiry on the best place to go to see the bluebells and since there are so many places we threw the question over to our Facebook followers to decide.This is what they have come up with.
Back on the Roaches this week carrying on with footpath restoration. Some of the routes over the top have become very spread out so we were landscaping areas with natural vegetation and rocks to encourage walkers to stay on one path and avoid eroding wider moorland areas.
New groups started this week on the Skills Builder programme so we had the inevitable paperwork to complete but then did some tool maintenance in the work shed to get active.
The last week of the first Skills Builder group today! We had to cancel last week due to the weather so finishing off this week instead.
