All hail the Grounddwellers

9 Goodgymers helped their local community in Oxford
Lorenzo
Andy
Sophie Wilkinson
Katie Fellows
Vicky Arnold
Mark
Anwen Greenaway
Ellie Evans
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Oxford

Wednesday 12th June

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Foxwell Drive's Tiny Forest was planted on 28 January 2021 by local contractors (in line with Covid restrictions). It is a curved shape that follows the road and is adjacent to the A40. It's had a few years to get established now, and many of the trees are thriving. Unfortunately a lot of nettles, brambles and other plants are also thriving and choking/competing with the trees.

We were called in for a two-pronged task - to clear around the trees to give them more chance of continuing to thrive and to uncover the tags needed for monitoring. Once we'd cleared a good area we then pivoted to some of the monitoring surveys - taking measurements of the tagged trees (and each others' ears for some reason!), and then doing a grounddwellers count to finish off.

Our very own Lorenzo is a volunteer with Tiny Forests and so has a monitoring kit, so hopefully we can independently head out for some monintoring surveys another time. We only have 1 more Tiny Forest in Oxford which we haven't visited yet, so let's head to Meadow Lane soon!

Congratulations to Anna on completing her 50th Good Deed!


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Wayne

Fri 14th Jun at 7:42am

Great job everyone

Jack Da Silva

Tue 18th Jun at 12:33pm

Great to read about this, well done everyone!

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