Painting tree guards and pulling Rag Wort at Hare Hill on Sunday 31st July 2016

Eleven MNTVers arrived at Hare Hill this morning, including Martin who joined us for the first time. We parked our cars in the new car park at Hare Hill, ready for a day of volunteering:-)
Although we were without a Ranger to show us where we were working, Peter the gardener had all the equipment we needed, plus some of our Group had been to Hare Hill a few weeks earlier doing the same tasks so knew what to do and where we were to start.

The work we did during the day               

We walked onto South Park and continued wire-brushing fence guards before we painted them with water-based green cuprinol. Instead, some of us walked around the field to finish pulling up the Rag Wort before any horses are put in there. We had a great day, the sun shone most of the day and we managed to paint 10 tree-guards between us and pulled up all the remaining Rag Wort.
Reporting this to John the Ranger later, he was delighted we'd managed to do so much and said, now we were in the swing of it, there was plenty more to do in North Park, when we next visit:-)


A happy bunch of MNTVers!