A thorny issue

A sunny Saturday mission with GoodGym joining volunteers from Sussex Wildlife Trust, Friends of Sheepcote Valley and Friends of East Brighton Park. A big task force to help make a big dent in a big tangle of brambles. Equipped with gloves and loppers, we chopped away at several years of tangled growth, slowly clearing the perimeter of the wildlife pond that the trust established 8 years ago to encourage a range of critters to use this already beautiful and biodiverse site. Interesting fact: Sheepcote Valley was used for the dumping of municipal waste until the 1980s, when it was landscaped and remediated for use as park space and playing fields.