Page background images and galleeries: Scenes from the Woodland Ways circular walk by a WW volunteer

Voulunteer Tree image on front page by Sarah White: Creative Commons image

The Woodland Ways galleries - charting the change in our community woodland through the year...

Images by a Woodland Ways volunteer

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November

Newsletter

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help change the landscape too!

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The mission of

Woodland Ways

Education for sustainable development through local

action and global awareness

Discover our educational policy and vision here

Green Light Trust

Lawshall-based Green Light Trust has a strong link with people living in a remote rainforest area of Papua New Guinea stretching back more than twenty years. 

Their recent visitor event is captured on the Green Light Flash of Good News page.

Read more here...

Moreton Hall’s orchard

Moreton Hall will have its own tradition apple
orchard, which we will plant on Sunday 8th January at Pond Covert, near Sebert Wood primary school.

Most of the trees will be St Edmund’s Russet, first recorded in Bury St Edmunds back in 1845.

This dessert apple is particularly resistant to scab, mildew and canker so will need no chemical sprays. One or two Lord Stradbroke’s cooking apple trees
will also be planted, to help with cross-pollination.

As the orchard matures, its historical varieties and increasing wildlife will give us a glimpse of a oncecommon land use.

From September / October 2015 or thereabouts, the fruit crop should be abundant. We will all be able to do our fruit shopping, free of charge. Why buy
standard commercial varieties from our supermarkets when you can pick your own local apples from our own orchard?

PROGRAMME OF EVENTS 2012

Information about work parties

Everyone is welcome to come along, no experience necessary. The work parties last two hours but you don’t have to stay to the end.

We usually stop for coffee. Tools are provided. Children are very welcome if accompanied by a responsible adult.

Work parties start at 10 o’clock with a ‘tools-talk’. Please don’t miss this 5-minute ‘what
and why and how’ safety talk.

Would your group like to help in 2012?
Contact us if you would like to have a workparty just for you (minimum 10 people).
Events are subject to change so please check beforehand.

Weather, new needs etc can occasionally cause our plans to change

POND COVERT Sunday 13th November

There was a very good turnout in mild sunny weather for our first big clear-out and tidy-up of the container in Sebert Road.

We must have looked like an army of ants filing in and out with stuff all morning! The result is a cleaner better-organised
store to start work in 2012.

It was such a good turnout that we were also able to finish re-surfacing the footpath through Pond Covert while Owen Green prepared the ground for fruit tree planting early in 2012.

HOME COVERT Sunday 11th December

Another good turnout!  We completely re-surfaced the footpath through Home Covert.

Sadly the tiny oak trees we planted earlier in the year were nibbled away by muntjac deer.

So using tree-mats, stakes and tree-guards for the first time, we planted 36 native trees in the covert including field maple, ash, crab apple, elder, wild rose and hazel.

Poking about for Fossil Poo with Woodland Ways!

This group outing on Sunday 4th December was best described as ‘character-forming’.

The weather was bitterly cold and windy as we walked 2km over rough ground along the banks of the River Deben to Ramsholt Cliff.

The red crag cliff and the sticky London Clay foreshore continually yield sharks’ teeth, dinosaur poo, shells and other remains as the tidal river scours and washes to and fro

.

Have a look at photos of the welly-wearing group (...coming soon).

And we did find lots of sharks’ teeth
and dinosaur poo?

We all thought it was a challenging (this might be due to encroaching old age of some of us!) but thoroughly enjoyable
experience. And thanks to Nick’s organising it, we had a delicious lunch
at the Ramsholt Arms.

• Do you have any ambitions

for Woodland Ways?

• We are already trying to get more land for tree planting.  Should we try to buy the woodland beyond the Flying Fortress

where badgers live? 

• What more can we do for the community?

Have you visited

Natterer's Wood

lately?