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Event – Orchard care and wildlife habitat building with Cheshire Wildlife Trust
HMVCG task days are back! The first is with Cheshire Wildlife Trust at the Sidings Orchard when volunteers will be helping CWT clear the orchard floor and build habitats for […]
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Dates for your diary
Lots of things happening over the next couple of months. Please contact us if you would like further information about any of the following events. We’ll also add details to […]
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Summer Scything Events @ Mersey Vale Nature Park
Here’s your chance to have a go at the old art of scything and help maintain areas of species-rich grassland at Mersey Vale Nature Park (MVNP) which are a vital […]
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Siding’s Orchard gets some TLC (tree loving care)
On Sunday, a group of regular orchard volunteers & others keen to learn about pruning braved the cold weather to give the fruit trees at the Sidings Orchard in Mersey […]
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Bramble Control at Mersey Vale Nature Park
HMVCG volunteers returned today to a wintry Mersey Vale Nature Park to continue the task of cutting back the brambles, non native shrubs and self seeded trees from the top […]
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Park and Bowl Reconnected
When we arrived on this sunny November morning the bank behind the park railings overlooking Vale Close and the Bowl was so overgrown that all that was visible was brambles […]
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View of Bowl restored from Vale Close
This Sunday volunteers swapped rakes and forks for loppers and saws and set to on the overgrown area of Vale Close to restore the viewing point across the Bowl. Hundreds […]
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Local people pull together
Last Sunday, encouraged by the vast improvement made to the Sidings Orchard the weekend before (see previous post), the volunteers came back to finish the job. Even better, more people […]
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The Sidings Orchard Re-emerges
This Sunday proved to be another fruitful day for our wonderful volunteers! The fruit trees planted at this community orchard in the last decade were being swamped by scrub. But […]
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Vale Close Grassland Management
It’s amazing how much seven volunteers can do in just 1 hour on a warm, summer evening ……… Standing and fallen decaying wood and old plants are very important for […]
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