Thursday 29th January 2026 -The sky was slightly grey looking but the rain was nowhere in sight for todays fairly large team working at Carshalton Road Pastures.
With a number of objectives on the schedule the volunteers kicked off with a spot of tree whip planting along the Eastern boundary in the ongoing efforts to create a diverse native tree hedgeline for the future, as this was progressing the brushcutter made short work of clearing the nearby chalk scrapes ready for a new years wildflower growth.
Just before midday the team then moved on to the South flank of the site and finished up the day planting another batch of whips to restock the slowly degrading mature trees, cleared away a fallen dead tree festooned with a cocoon of Ivy, brushcut a section of path edges and amassed a sizable quantity of fly tipped waste adjacent to the roadside tree-line.
Sunday 25th January - Not wanting to miss out on the action enjoyed by our mid week comrades, Roundshaw Downs provided the full weather experience for today's ten strong team as they spent the morning clearing encroaching bramble.
Thursday 22nd January 2026 - It was another large team of volunteers out for todays task-day emanating from the Western division of Roundshaw Woods.
With the main action of the day occurring in the Hazel coppice area the team had a lot to get their teeth into even with the very fine drizzle that accompanied them for much of the duration.
As the coppicing built up a steady head of steam other members of the volunteers moved slightly away from the felling zone to tackle the ever present Snowberry and the processing of the harvested Hazel into stakes for the sagging dead-hedges, before the more whippy material could be used to regenerate the feature.