A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Hope you all had a good Easter! Our next volunteer session will be this Wednesday 1st May from 10am. We’ll be mainly working in the north of the reserve, so please come to the office to start. We will be clearing the area around the zigzag again,…
If you’re interested in coming along let me know. We’ll meet over the M11 this time – in the usual spot by the bike racks at 10am, or if you want a lift come to the office for 9.50. Bring lunch and a drink, we’ll have tea and biscuits and all the tools/PPE.
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Last session we managed to clear a substantial amount of scrub from the south M11 bank. Thanks to the team who carried out some extremely methodical work in bad weather – we removed a fair bit of rose. As a south facing bank, this is one…
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Thanks to all the volunteers who came earlier in the month in what was possibly our biggest group yet! We completed a lot of good work, clearing the coprolite pond banks of scrub. We clear these banks in an annual rotation, leaving enough scrub as habitat…
Root out your woolly hat and waterproofs, and get prepared to walk off your post-Christmas excesses with Walk & Soup at Trumpington Meadows! Walk & Soup Come and join your neighbours and local community on Friday 28th December at 11am meeting at Trumpington Meadows Primary School for a community walk around the beautiful Nature Reserve…
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Last week the volunteer team worked on coppicing the trees along the drive near the office, and finished off weeding some of the beds around the office, providing space for the plants to flourish. Thanks to everyone for their hard work – it looks fantastic.…
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. HUGE thanks to the volunteers who came last week. We’d planned a really intensive day removing vegetation in Badgers Wood and along the verges in the south and the team worked really hard to get the job done. Next week we’re meeting on Wednesday 5th…
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Last week the volunteer team helped tackle the large number of thistles in Badgers Wood in the south and made great progress – some good team work. This is a lovely, peaceful area of the reserve which will eventually be a small woodland but the…
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Thanks to those who came to the last session and helped install the new bench at Trumpington Meadows – a great job done. The bench is a memorial for Janette Young and was arranged and donated by her husband Alec, daughter Andrea, and other family…
A message from Rebecca Green, Senior Ranger at Trumpington Meadows. Thanks to those who came for a very productive session last week – we made a good start on the Old Mill Field area of the reserve. We’ve begun cutting back some of the vegetation there, and “popping” or coppicing some of the encroaching scrub.…
