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Not for profit workers Co-op. Our aim is to mitigate climate change and restore biodiversity through planting, managing and protecting woodland and wildflower.
Calderdale, West Yorkshire
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Clearly very little interest on
#twitter
for what we do and minimal support for us here. Prob time to move on and stop posting on here. Lots of work to crack on with in the real world while the world burns and our leaders sit idle applauding themselves for achieving sweet nothing
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Productive day this week with many metres of trenching dug out for heeling in trees.
Another 4,900 trees and shrubs incl Blackthorn, Dogrose, Dogwood, Elder, Hawthorn, Hornbeam, Rowan, Spindle and Wild Cherry ready for planting on various sites for
@Calderdale
Landowners Grant🙌
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Over the past 2 days we planted 450 trees in Warley, Halifax with gusty 50-55mph winds, the dip helped! 20 different species planted inc Alder, Elder, Blackthorn, Bird Cherry, Birches, Crabapple, Dogwood, Field Maple, Guelder Rose, Hawthorn, Hazel, Oaks, Poplar, Rowan and Willows
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#Misty
morning on the ridiculously steep side of Gorpley above Clough Foot mine water treatment works off Bacup Road. The team have been working on this section the last few weeks to sort out any damaged trees with broken stakes replaced and any failed trees replanted as needed.
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This week, coppicing osier willow and planting the cuttings to create revetments in between older timber leaky dams. The willow will be formed into natural living leaky dams that provide wildlife habitat to replace the untreated oak wooden dams that will slowly break down and rot
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Work started on our next project, marking out attenuation ponds and planting willow cuttings to create living leaky dams to help capture more water during heavy rainfall before it flows down the valley. A nice mix of native trees and hedging will be planted to diversify the site.
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Rhododendron removal in ancient woodland with pine plantation. Part 1 of the process before felling remaining pine that haven't blown over and replanting with diverse mix. Avoiding glyphosate so we're fully uprooting rhodo chipping small stuff with bigger stems dried for firewood
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#Timelapse
hand pulling Himalayan Balsam in
#HebdenBridge
at Crow Nest on Sunday. Very little flora remaining once the
#balsam
was gone. By hand pulling we avoid damaging native flora which can take advantage of the additional light and bare soil to restablish
#BashtheBalsam
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Another brilliant day at our community tree nursery today made even better thanks to all the lovely people helping out with lifting and grading our Downy Birch trees. Made good progress with most of the trees in this bed lifted but it will need another day to get it all finished.
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Our leaky dams in action this afternoon at Cockhill Clough in Cragg Vale.
#NaturalFloodManagement
project started last year with dams constructed and trees planted. The dams help slow the flow of water to reduce peak flow further down the valley during heavy rainfall
#NFM
#Trees
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We will be at Daisy Bank as usual this Friday in spite of snow and frost. Due to the amazing work of last week's volunteers, we've lots of trees still to grade, and if the ground thaws enough, we'll lift some more. It's a great spot for catching the winter sunshine.
#communitree
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Attenuation ponds in progress at Blackshaw Head being dug out by hand with a team of 4 with no machinery. Lots of water flowing through this site from various springs that pop up with heavy rain. Once completed, they should hopefully help prevent flooding further down the valley.
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Apparently we've offended a few people with our posts or put them off 🤔 lost a few followers recently with our last batch of posts! We were getting very excited about reaching 1,000 followers before our 4th birthday on the 20th of January, we'll hold off with the celebrations
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Site maintenance at Gorpley repairing sheep damage, replacing broken stakes and replanting where a tree hasn't survived. One of the more accessible and flatter sections of this big tree planting site surrounding Gorpley Reservoir. Huge thank you to Jenny for helping us out again!
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If the previous contractors had done their job properly in the first place, we wouldn't be spending so much time on this site sorting it out! The majority of stakes are only knocked in 15-20cm. Only a matter of time before it starts leaning over with tree growth and wind exposure
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It's Friday tomorrow 😆 can anyone guess what we'll be doing? That's right, we will be at our community tree nursery as usual 💚 We will continue lifting and grading our trees so that they are ready for planting. Christina is kindly making delicious vegetable soup again this week
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Site maintenance continues this week at Gorpley. Some sunshine made a pleasant change from the rain in previous weeks but temperature has dropped with an icy cold wind. Very cold feet and hands today, good to keep moving by knocking stakes and planting so the blood flows properly
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Finished with site maintenance on the steep section of Gorpley above Clough Foot mine water treatment works this week and looking forward to a change of scenery. It's cold and very windy on this side of the hill with no sun in winter with a long walk to get stakes on this far end
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Willow coppiced and made into 80 metres of fascines in preparation to be used for erosion control for another site we'll be working on next week. Luckily lovely landowners have given us permission to coppice hazel on their land for stakes to secure the fascines in place
#Fascines
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Processing hawthorn seeds in preparation for stratification. It can take upto 18 months for the seeds to germinate which means we're preparing for sowing in spring 2023. This dormancy period can be reduced through seed scarification so hopefully some will be ready for this spring
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With the winter solstice upon us, the darkest of days, we've decided to help everyone through the longest night of the year with a special offer from our community tree nursery! Buy 1 and get 1 tree 🌳
Get in touch if you want to buy any trees to help support the work we do 💚
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Slip sliddy day installing fascines and stakes from locally coppiced willow as erosion control in a woodland with steep eroded slope. This site could do with more fascines and letting more light in to encourage flora to establish. Hopefully we'll be back soon to do more work here
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Willow spilling to prevent erosion on banking between the leaky dams is pretty much finished. We finished all the straight bits of willow, so for the final top section we worked with the smaller scrappy bits leftover. Boots need drying out after getting filled up with water.
#NFM
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Some before and after shots with rhododendron removal. We've worked on this site for 5 days so far, lots of rhodo uprooted and shifted, but it will take another 4 days or so to get it all finished off and processed. Could do with some fascines on this banking when we're finished.
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A good productive day at our community tree nursery with sunshine today lifting and grading Downy Birch trees today. We had a delicious vegetable soup for lunch, which Christina kindly made for everyone taking part as well as Govi's lovely scones with homemade blackcurrant jam 💚
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Snow day doing site maintenance, sun never broke through during the day, but we had a lovely sunset to remind us how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful part of the world. Back on site tomorrow with sunshine expected as red sky at night, shepherd's delight
#WinterWonderland
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#Treerange
hedge planting within the deer netting enclosure. The deer netting should last around 10 years by which time the 285m of hedging, our living willow leaky dams and additional 1,295 we'll plant with volunteers next week should be established properly if all goes to plan.
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With tree planting finished for the season, Jack was keen to crack on with the river cleanup between Hebden and Brearley Fields while the river was low. Sods law, it started raining today but excellent news for all the trees we've planted! We're working our way down from Hebden
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Busy with the latest project with tree thinning, willow coppicing, making leaky dams to help slow the flow of water and willow spilling to reduce erosion on the banking. Big thanks to Rika for volunteering with us this week.
#NFM
#leakydam
#willowspilling
#Naturalfloodmanagement
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Deer netting getting installed in preparation for 285m of hedgerow and 1,295 trees. The deer netting is being used instead of shelters/spirals on this windy site to avoid windswept diagonal trees, encourage natural establishment and protect willow leaky dams we planted last month
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Site maintenance at Gorpley yesterday with the team sorting out broken stakes and replacing failed trees as needed. A slow process with plenty more to do on this site. We will continue working on this site throughout the rest of the season in between our other sites and projects.
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Getting field bed ready and prepped for our smaller Sessile Oaks to grow for another year. Forked to clear weeds, compost topping and edge of bed tidied. We might wood chip paths in between the nursery beds but needs boarding up to keep it in place with nursery on sloping ground.
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Rhododendron removal without using herbices by cutting back and fully uprooting, brash being chipped on site and larger stems dried for bonus firewood. Challenging site has lots of blown over conifers with many lying on top of the rhodo, making it a slower process to work around.
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Shelter belt and 240m hedgerow planted with a diverse mix of 24 species at Ryburn Golf Club on 1st November. Hedge and trees planted
#treerange
without plastic tubes/spirals as we anticipate minimal risk but we will be keeping a close eye on them and may protect retrospectively🤞
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We've been busy balsam bashing at Colden Clough and Jumble Hole Clough
@EnvAgencyYNE
@ScottAPatient
@Calderdale
@YISF__INNS
@YWT_North
@RiverCalder
@EnvAgency
#biodiversity
#bashthebalsam
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A huge thank you to Adrian and Joe for helping us out with lifting and grading Oak trees. Adrian is kindly fundraising for us by organising an epic bike trail of 909km 25th - 30th May 2024 with 50% of funds being donated
Please visit to find out more info
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Hitting two birds with one stone, our friend Kerith was keen to get her unruly willow back under control and we needed thicker older growth for
#stakes
to secure fascines in place on another project. 170 stakes cut and spiked on one end to make it easier to knock them in place 🙌
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We continued with deer netting installation and started planting the hedge with help from volunteers from
@ArcadisUK
kindly organised by Lizzie 💚 Lovely bunch of vols did a great job with helping plant a diverse mix of native trees and shrubs to create a wildlife friendly hedge.
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Team back at the office again today. The show goes on and on and on. Site maintenance again tomorrow with added excitement of snow in the morning and light rain in the afternoon if the weather forecast is right. Extra layers and rubber waterproofs will be dress code for the day.
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We continued lifting our bare rooted Sessile Oak trees today. Loads of trees lifted and processed so far with plenty more to do with the rest of the bed to work through and another full bed of Sessile Oak.
Big thanks to Rob for helping out! We appreciate all the help we get 🙌
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Live in Hebden, Mytholmroyd or Todmorden? Recently bought some garden plants, herbs or flowers? Got empty trays like this which you don't need? We would love to take them off your hands and avoid
#plasticwaste
and
#reuse
them to grow little trees at our nursery. Give us a shout
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So it begins, the Himalayan Balsam is growing and getting ready to take over woodlands, rivers and tributaries. This year we'll continue tackling this invasive non-native species by hand pulling the balsam from June onwards once the bluebells have finished flowering and seeding🪻
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We had all the weather at the tree nursery with rainbows to lift our spirits. Sorting out tree orders with help from Rob with lifting English Oak, Silver Birch, Elder and Guelder Rose. Lots of sad news happening around the world so we're grateful for our little happy safe space🌳
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Everyone please sign and share this to ensure council debate this ecoside at Yew Tree Farm. Dormice and harvest mice habitats destroyed. Very saddened by this as many orgs like ourselves plant hedgerows to create habitats like this only for it to be knowingly destroyed elsewhere!
The petition to save Yew Tree farm has reached over 1000 signatures in less than 24 hours! If it reaches 3,500 the council have to debate it. The Labour administration are obviously scared because they are yet again trying to discredit me. Please share 🙏
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Another day at the office with a view and decent weather 😁 Site maintenance again today! We had the pleasure of having Douglas helping out for his first volunteer day with us. Cracking job, we hope to have him out with us again. Lucky to have brilliant volunteers helping us out.
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Many hands makes light work of large area's with Himalayan Balsam 💪🐜🌱 Thanks for the video Jack 🌟
#BalsamBashing
#TimeLapse
#HebdenBridge
#ColdenClough
#InvasiveSpecies
#INNS
#Biodiversity
#NFM
@EnvAgencyYNE
@CalderCountry
@Calderdale
@CanalRiverTrust
@RiverCalder
@YISF__INNS
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Heeling in graded Downy Birch trees at our community tree nursery last week.
#DownyBirch
#CTNC
#CommunityTreeNursery
#SnowDay
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Source to Sea Trail takes you from the Pennine moors where many of our rivers begin and many miles later onto the Yorkshire coast and then over the Humber Estuary where the rivers flow into the body of the North Sea. And back to the starting line in
#HebdenBridge
#may
#biketrail
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We've temporarily run out of space at our unit! Thats 7,200 trees sorted and ready to be planted this month by our team and the wonderful people at Treesponsibility with lots of volunteers! English Oak, Wild Cherry, Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Alder, Lime, Hazel and Aspen
#TreePlanting
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@philsturgeon
Thanks Phil, we appreciate your support and we're touched by the response we had to our post. It felt like a waste of time posting anything on here as we often had no engagement at all. We'll see how things develop and take it from there. Might see you on a windy hillside one day
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So far this year we've cleared a total area of approx 94ha (940,000 square metres) hand pulling Himalayan Balsam to improve
#biodiversity
with help from our brilliant volunteers and priority actions grant funding from
@EnvAgencyYNE
and
@Calderdale
which made this all possible!
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Last minute maintenance at the Woodland Trust planting at Gorpley reservoir. We need lots of HELP to replace broken stakes and re-plant thousands of trees in an area damaged by sheep. We will be on site every day this week (weekends to be arranged) and next week
#volunteering
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From last year showing our living willow leaky dams planted in 2018. Works very well for smaller streams but needs time to establish before having a big storm with heavy flow as this risks displacing the willow cuttings if they haven't rooted in properly.
#Naturalfloodmanagement
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From last year showing our living willow leaky dams planted in 2018. Works very well for smaller streams but needs time to establish before having a big storm with heavy flow as this risks displacing the willow cuttings if they haven't rooted in properly.
#Naturalfloodmanagement
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We've been out fencing in the snow all week preparing one of our sites for hedge planting and willow revetments to help reduce flooding further down the valley.
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Our 10 leaky dams in Cragg Vale did a good job this afternoon with the heavy rain from
#stormbabet
Luckily we missed the worst of the storm which had other parts of the country hit much worse than
#Calderdale
#NFM
#naturalfloodmanagement
#leakydams
#treeplanting
#hedgeplanting
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Busy day with
#rhododendron
stump removal on steep banking. Tangled mess of intergrown stumps wedged underneath and in between wind blown conifers. Working with ropes, digging bar and silky saw to uproot, remove and get stumps up the banking, ready to be taken off site and burned
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Wooden leaky dam in Cragg Vale behind our willow revetments which we planted earlier this year and coming along really well. The dam will also help the willow revetments by giving them a chance to establish properly as living leaky dams and a fantastic wildlife habitat too!
#NFM
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Come join us between 10am-4pm planting 600 hedge trees in
#Todmorden
OL14 6JJ on Thursday 14th if you don't mind getting a bit wet and you're available to volunteer for the day or a few hours 💚 Get in touch by emailing info
@forustree
.org or 07510 355 168 for further information.
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How exciting 😁 Big thank you to our newest volunteers Maggie and David for your help today potting up the tiny crab apples 🌱In Autumn we collected the crab apples from an ancient woodland, carefully extracted the seeds with volunteers and stratified them in the fridge until now
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Another day sorting out stakes in the snow. Much warmer in the sunshine today than yesterday but it got very cold the moment the sun dropped behind the hill. Wet gloves went solid, ice stuck on the knockers making our hands stick and any clothing that got wet went rigid with ice.
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Work continues with
#rhododendron
removal this week. A few more days to do on this site to get all of it
#uprooted
and chipped. We've had to work systematically to get around the blown over conifers which make the job a bit more awkward but it should all be worth it in the end 🙌
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The river levels dropped last night so the crew were back to continue with the river cleanup working their way down between the old Clogg factory and Mytholmroyd. High walls and narrow edges make this section particularly tricky to move and shift materials out of the river!
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Epic efforts from all our lovely volunteers today with hedge planting
@Lumb_Bank
🌱 Over
#1000
#trees
planted today and we're back tomorrow to finish off the job if anyone wants to join us. Email or text to let us know if you're coming or if you need a lift from the train station
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Busy day at the tree nursery today with a good turnout. Finished lifting the last of the bare root Downy Birch and continued with grading. Get in touch if you need trees for your planting projects and help support our work. Native broadleaf trees from 20cm to over 1.5m available.
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#volunteercallout
Maintenance at Gorpley continues if you are able to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 10th then do get in touch. The place and time of meeting is 10am at The Yorkshire Water building. Email us info
@forustree
.org or text 07510 355168 to let us know if you're coming 🙌
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This week we started with hand pulling Himalayan Balsam at Colden Clough. We've seen a huge improvement on areas we've been hand pulling balsam in previous years. These pics are the same site before and after hand pulling
#HimalayanBalsam
#BashtheBalsam
#InvasiveNon
-NativeSpecies
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We've been out collecting acorns from the ancient woodland
@HardcastleNT
on behalf of
@whiteroseforest
grow the next generation of trees. Around 70kg collected with many already starting to sprout and eager to grow! Big thank you to everyone for their help collecting 💚
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Seeking land for
#conservation
, woodland creation, memorial planting and community projects in Calderdale and beyond. Working with the community to reduce flooding, improve
#biodiversity
and create vital wildlife habitats. Please get in touch if you think you can help or share 🙏
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Living willow revetments (leaky dams) in
#Todmorden
Planted in 2018 and just had the thicker stems
#coppiced
for materials to create more leaky dams in Blackshaw to reduce peak flow during storms/heavy rainfall to help prevent flooding and provide additional wildlife habitat 🐛
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We had some curious goats while
#BalsamBashing
today. Unfortunately they weren't interested in eating it 🌱🐐🌱
#INNS
#BashtheBalsam
@EnvAgencyYNE
@YISF__INNS
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Volunteers needed at our community tree nursery as part of our usual Forus Fridays at Daisy Bank, Mytholmroyd. We need lots of help over the next two sessions, 5th and 12th January lifting and grading our trees. There will be homemade hearty vegetable soup
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We started with a bare patch behind the barn, 5 hours later we had 2 beds @ 17 metres long with 15kg acorns planted and ready for watering. These acorns were collected around various sites in
#Calderdale
including ancient woodlands and very keen to grow with most
#acorns
sprouted
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We're incredibly grateful to
@CalderdaleFound
for the grant received to help support setting up the Forus Tree Community Tree Nursery in Mytholmroyd. We'll have lots of fantastic volunteering opportunities coming up soon 🌱
#FoundationFunded
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Well we've gotten involved with Clifton Beck in Brighouse this week, it's been a filthy process! Trailer loads of stuff pulled out and brought to the recycling centre, recycling what we can. This could be an amazing wildlife habitat if people didn't throw all their crap into it!
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Little tiny trees! Can you see them? These Silver Birch had a slow start due to problems with our irrigation system. We thought they might not make it though the winter but their going strong and there's 1000's of them. Slow careful weeding between the trees and ready for spring
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Lovely weather for spending the day outdoors. Big thanks to Ian, Christina, Rob and Katie for their help. Very small Silver Birch trees which had disappeared amongst the overgrown weeds. Always plenty to get on with as usual and we appreciate all the help we can get 🙌
#ThankYou
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On the way to our tree nursery, Horse Chestnuts falling on the road and track were quickly collected before they got crushed. Every gust of wind brought more raining down with the occasional knock on the head! Collect seeds while you have the chance, the seasons change so quickly
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We've been putting woodchips and shavings on our Oak beds. Big
#thankyou
to Jovis for sorting out the lovely donated woodchip for us. A byproduct from a local timber framing company, these untreated green oak shavings have been left to rot for a few years before collecting 😁❤️🙏
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In case you didn't know it already... trees help mitigate global heating and contribute to keeping the earth cool! We thought this was already proven long ago but every little helps! Trees are amazing but can't solve it all, we still need to cut emissions!
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The delicious hot vegetable soup Christina made kept us warm and went down a treat with Govi's home baked sourdough bread 💚 Very grateful for everyones help and contributions and look forward to next week when we celebrate our 4th birthday 💚 We might even have some cake 😋
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Join us for a volunteer day tomorrow, Wednesday, 13th March between 10am and 4pm. Help us plant a diverse mix of 1,295 native broadleaf trees in Cragg Vale, HX7 5TT. The trees will be planted
#treerange
. The field had deer netting installed to avoid using deer guards and stakes.
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Have a look at the latest leaky dams in action during the downpours last week! We did the leaky dams and tree planting earlier this year on behalf of
@treesponsibilit
funded by their Banks & Branches project last season
#naturalfloodmanagement
#leakydams
#nfm
#workerscooperative
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Epic amounts of crap taken out of the River Calder between Hebden bridge and Sowerby. Over 3km of river cleared and we pulled out tonnes of stuff! Plenty of historical waste but also
#rawsewage
and very unpleasant working near the sewage works with wet wipes galore!
#rivercleanup
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Seeking volunteer
#ecologists
to help with our balsam project this year doing quadrats on various sites in Calderdale, West Yorkshire demonstrating the effectiveness of hand pulling Himalayan Balsam to improve biodiversity of our native flora and fauna
#WeKnowItWorks
#HelpUsProve
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Finding acorns on paths with no chance of growing. Got plenty of acorns to grow at our community tree nursery so we just collect and relocate them where they might have a chance to grow. Works very well in areas that have opened canopy due to fallen trees with brambles to protect
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#Sloes
collected in October, processed to extract the
#seeds
with volunteers and left to
#stratify
over winter.
#Chitted
seeds carefully pricked out and planted in April. Blackthorn grown about 30cm over the last 3 months and should be ready for planting this winter
#growingtrees
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Various sites being tackled around the valley to stop balsam spreading into the upper catchment and moors. Keep an eye out for dates to help us with hand pulling balsam at Lumbutts, Colden Clough, Jumble Hole Clough + Crow Nest
#INNS
#NFM
#BashtheBalsam
#InvasiveNonNativeSpecies
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We started on our next riparian tree planting site in Cragg Vale which will have 800 trees planted. In tune with our theme of the season, Charlie was delighted to find many rocks while screefing! Back to pilot holes for stakes until we get decent ground conditions (hopefully)! 🙈
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Great turnout for our
#BashtheBalsam
event on Sunday in Crow Nest, big thanks to Margot, Jenny, Christine, Govi, Evie and Beck. Absolutely flying through the balsam with the help of these brilliant volunteers! This Sunday we'll working at Jumble Hole Clough if you want to join us
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Another delightful snowy sunset this evening with Stoodley Pike way off in the distance on our way back home from site. We'll have sunshine again tomorrow "red sky at night, shepherd's delight".
#sunset
#sunsetphotography
#stoodleypike
#calderdale
#todmorden
#snow
#westyorkshire
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We've been fencing again this week to protect a new boundary hedge which will be planted at Lumb Bank in March. Hedging across several fields with a lovely mix including Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Hazel, Guelder Rose, Dog Wood, Dog Rose, Crab Apple, Bird Cherry, Wild Cherry and Rowan
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Anyone out there have any ideas on these insect eggs? Pete found them on one of the tree planting stakes on site today. We're very curious what they are and figured someone can point us in the right direction instead of spending ages looking online...
#insecteggs
#identification
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Preparations for another
#NoDig
tree nursery bed underway. Used cardboard given to us by local businesses and a free trailer load of well rotted horse manure to go with it 🙌💚 We're grateful for all the help and support we get with growing trees for the future
#CircularEconomy
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We noticed a big difference with sites which had balsam left further upstream or out of reach compared to others which didn't. Always get any plants which are further uphill or upstream. In this case several fields away but fed by natural flow of water further up the catchment
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Thank you Margo for collecting these hazel nuts for us to grow at our Daisy Bank community tree nursery. Do you live in
#calderdale
and have
#hazelnuts
we can collect on your land? Please get in touch so we can grow more local trees for natural flood management and tree planting
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After the wettest February on record,
@Costingtheearth
have just done an episode on flooding :
Planting trees reduces surface runoff and helps stabilise soils. Upland management like trees and leaky dams are known as Natural Flood Management or NFM.
A picture worth a thousands words - courtesy of
@denny_robert
and
@RTFphotos
from Calder Valley last week. Rainfall streaming down slopes compacted by decades of pitter-pattering tiny feet. Photos like this show where to plant trees across slopes to reduce downstream
#flood
risk.
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Big thank you to Gavin for his help at Gorpley today 🙌 first time volunteering with site maintenanance and tree planting but got on with it like a pro! We'll be back next week to continue if you want to get involved
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So pleased with our brilliant volunteers who come out and help us every Sunday with bashing Balsam. They really got stuck in as usual working in old mill ponds, dense bramble patches and nettles at Jumble Hole Clough! Back again next week for more and there might even be cake 😀
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