It feels like we’ve been stuck on this section for an eternity! Today we got to the point where we are able to move to the next section…

We did a last brush cut of the cleared higher path and just had a general tidy up.

We also fixed the picnic bench.

It’s not perfectly flat, but it’s functional, as we found out when we had our coffee and cookie break.

Some Fungi finds today:-

And of course our butterfly embankment is ready for seeding with a meadow grass and wildflower mix, plus all the kidney vetch seeds that I have collected this year.

We still need to thin the trees casting shadow, but that is a job for January when all the berries have gone. We will put a bench in on the other side of the path so people can sit and watch the butterfly activity next summer. It will be superb.

This week I visited Wappenbury Wood, a site managed by Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, just to make sure that we are on the same page in terms of looking after the woodland aspect of our nature trail.

It’s a boggy and wet path which shows why we need to keep the width of ours wide and dry, or people will simply not use it.

Well that’s about it for this week. Please PATRON PATRON PATRON (top righthand of blog!) even if it’s just a couple of quid a month. Seeding the butterfly clearing will cost £52, Fixing the picnic bench is £5 for screws (luckily I scrounged the wood batons), the bench for the butterfly clearing will be £12 for the wood and £4 for the postfix… But on the flip side – come along and join in… I really cannot stress how good this is for mental wellbeing!!

Until next week!

Paul