Welcome to the New Ash Green Woodlands Group Site
We are a group of local residents who meet every month to work in the orchard and woodlands of New Ash Green. Having started by restoring the village's community orchard to its former glory, we also work in some of the village woodlands.
Please join us. No skills are required and we welcome young and old. So if you fancy some gentle pruning or heavy
fence building, fresh air and the chance to contribute to the environment we share, why not come down to the woods today.
We meet on the third Saturday of each month. Tea and coffee, is provided for a very modest charge of only £1 per person.
Keep up to date with where the Group's working next, listed below, or perhaps you would like to join in one of the seasonal walks hosted by Carole and Martin.
If you are interested in helping with the renovation of the Orchard and the woodlands of New Ash Green please do
contact Jerry Ash on 01474 879 897 or Carole on 01474 874 976 (alternatively leave a note in the Guest Book and we will get back to
you).
- UPCOMING EVENTS
Hi all
Quick plug at the top of this message – if you belong to other Clubs or Groups, or Residents Societies or anything like that – please feel free to forward this message on to them – it all helps promote the work of the Woodlands Group.
This Saturday, 18th February – it being the 3rd Saturday in the month – is our next Woodlands Group work day. We’re meeting in the Orchard, but likely to be spending most of our time in Nine Horse Wood.
And this Saturday is the 8th Anniversary of the Woodlands Group starting work to rescue the orchard!
The plan for Saturday is:
meet at 10 for the tools talk and to find out the work details.
1st task – some tidying in the orchard (see below) – including looking at the plum trees which tend to suffer in the snow
2nd task – off into the woods to seek out and destroy Cherry Laurel – we’re finding it’s easier to spot this invasive species during the winter.
3rd task – check out Bazes Shaw Wood for potential tasks for the March and April workdays – there is a lot of rubbish in this pocket woodland and we need a plan for dealing with it.
Tea Break around 1130/12 ish
Pack up and away by 2
Our plans for the Orchard in 2012 are very simple – we’re not doing any pruning of apple trees, having decided to give them a year off and instead to take a proper look at whether our previous pruning efforts are likely to bear fruit – geddit?
So the work day will involve a meet in the orchard, a stroll through Nine Horse Wood and the occaisional intensive burst of activity to cut down or pull up Cherry Laurel.
Feel free to slip out to Boot Fair in the Village Hall at any stage. This is being organised by the 5 Duke of Edinburgh Award lads who have been working with us over the last year or so – they’re actually raising funds to pay for an expedition to Peru and Bolivia
in 2013 – so a cause well worth supporting – as is the Woodlands Group!
Hope to see you this Saturday.
all the best
Jerry