HGN GOLD member, Applewood Permaculture have a busy programme of courses over the summer: 2nd – 7th June PEACE course (Peace, Empowerment and Cultural Emergence) with Looby 4th July Fruit tree Summer Pruning and Budding workshop with Chris 16th -19th July Practical Volunteer long weekend at Applewood 24th -26th July ACE course (Activating Cultural Emergence) with Looby 5th -6th September Forest Gardening with Chris Click on the links to find out more.
St Michael’s Hospice, Hereford are holding a three day plant fair from today Friday 15th May until Sunday 17th May. Alongside the plants there will be local food, crafts, garden furniture and recycled items on sale. Local charities will also have a presence. The organisers are looking for volunteers to help. Click here for full details.
Meer Common Gathering Sunday 19th April 2.00 -4.00 pm The Almeley Green Group, a HGN GOLD member, has spent the past few years restoring one of its parish commons through a range of habitat and biodiversity initiatives. This has included repurposing overgrown and unsafe trees to create log piles, improving light access to the pond and woodland floor, and clearing heavily overgrown bramble areas to allow native flora to return. The group has also installed dormouse, owl and bat boxes to further support local wildlife. The work has been guided by local tree and ecology advisers, supported by a
Volunteer your time and learn how to cast Hempcrete Andrew de la Haye and Yolande Watson, whom many members will know from Yolande’s presentation to HGN on the Dark Skies Initiative that she is leading on and Andrew’s talk on Permaculture, are planning to build a hempcrete bungalow this year. They have broken ground (their self watering garden is currently being constructed) and now starting to schedule in their contractors. They are looking for 4 volunteers over 5 days to help them cast hempcrete in June – exact dates to follow next month when they know the date the timber frame company
