BEES Conservation Volunteers

BEES Conservation Volunteers
Last Friday we cleared vegetation from the historic hill tramway at Shipley Glen with help for the first time from some volunteers taking a break from their desk jobs at Bradford & Bingley Building Society. Set in historic woodland the tram has run for 111 years ( http://www.glentramway.co.uk/). Under the drizzle we attacked the weeds with strimmers, sickles, spades and trowels. By the end of the day we had cleared the whole line (about 400m) ready for the invasion of families this Bank Holiday Weekend.

At the end of the day an impromptu fashion show along the station-platform/catwalk treated us to Pavell's Spring foliage garland design modelled by the lovely Agnes.

Knotweed

Last Friday we had a volunteer meeting. A chap from the council came to talk about Japanese Knotweed, which was really useful because we come across it all the time.

We also ate a lot of biscuits.

Since the last blog volunteers have made baby herons at the Yorkshire Sculpture park (don't ask), had a long day at the orchard that ended with a barbeque, and spent last Friday on the nature reserve.