It is 3 years since we worked on pond margins and island at Manor Farm. Since then willow, brambles and nettles have become established in the fertile mud banks. Our challenge is to target only the undesirables whilst leaving intact most of the deliberate planting. Please try to pull out the weeds rather than simply […]
A three week task at Manor Farm. Task leader Geoff. Dan has asked us to plant, stake with a cane and spiral-wrap 3000 bare-rooted hedging plants along 600m lines in the paddock behind the cattle round-house and in the ex-deer field near the hide. We have a number of spades in the trailer but not […]
A three week task at Manor Farm. Task leader Geoff. Dan has asked us to plant, stake with a cane and spiral-wrap 3000 bare-rooted hedging plants along 600m lines in the paddock behind the cattle round-house and in the ex-deer field near the hide. We have a number of spades in the trailer but not […]
A three week task at Manor Farm. Task leader Geoff. Dan has asked us to plant, stake with a cane and spiral-wrap 3000 bare-rooted hedging plants along 600m lines in the paddock behind the cattle round-house and in the ex-deer field near the hide. We have a number of spades in the trailer but not […]
First job for a new client – Natural England in the Meon Valley. Geoff to lead. Two weeks to start and re-establish a rota of coppicing that is long overdue on the Beacon Hill National Nature Reserve on the West the Meon valley. All Hazel to be cut close to the ground. Much of the […]
First job for a new client – Natural England in the Meon Valley. Geoff to lead. Two weeks to start and re-establish a rota of coppicing that is long overdue on the Beacon Hill National Nature Reserve on the West the Meon valley. All Hazel to be cut close to the ground. Much of the […]
Revised plans below. Two weeks of hedge laying preparation at Hinton Ampner along the Kilmeston road in the Itchen Field where we last worked in November 2019. Rod may lead the task. This is a challenging hedge, dense with coppiced hazel regrowth and a little blackthorn that has been flail cut several times. On this […]
Revised plans below. Two weeks of hedge laying preparation at Hinton Ampner along the Kilmeston road in the Itchen Field where we last worked in November 2019. Rod may lead the task. This is a challenging hedge, dense with coppiced hazel regrowth and a little blackthorn that has been flail cut several times. On this […]
Late update. Forest operations extracting more ash this week. We will be working on the fencing only and will need to keep the track clear. For week 2, any planting work here will depend on a lot of felling being done in a short time. Please watch this space on 29th. Hampshire Southern […]
A job for Martin and HCS Southern Sites at Cowes Lane. Extreme stormy seas keep pushing the shore shingle over the stock fence in the field at the end of Cowes Lane at Hook. The job is to install a new stock fence a few metres back to keep the cows in as the shingle […]