11 volunteers turned out on a damp morning and spent the day hedge laying. There was also a group of volunters from (I think) BTCV on the same site.The hedge had been started by a third group on a previous day - leaving a large pile of brash that needed to be burnt.
This hedge needed to be laid "Cheshire style - and so looks quite different from the one we have been doing at Dunham Massey. We were quite suprised to find that we managed to burn all the brash by the end of the day - the fire that was lit on corrugated iron in an area with the turf removed to protect the vegetation from it. It was the most difficult fire lighting I've had for a long time but once it got going it went well.
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