Workday at Styal on 28th June 2015

Ten of us turned out at Styal for a varied workday.  First thing was on to the Mill Meadow to look for an item of jewellery lost by a visitor the day before.  Despite the ranger having searched the area by torchlight the night before (looking for shiny things) and 14 of us getting down on our hands and knees we didn't find it.  Then we split into two groups for the main work: one group went with a ranger to the Southern Woods to pull up Himalayan Balsam while the other group became the first NT volunteers to work on a new purchase, namely Bank House Farm which is just behind the Mill Meadow.

There we cut invading thistles by using scythes prior to the fields being treated with herbicide.  We may in the future be doing a lot more work on the farm.

Adrian