Today's planned workday at Hayfield was cancelled by ranger Chris due to the extreme fire risk and the need to allow for fire patrols and ranger response if required so instead five of us met ranger Issy at Hare Hill for a day of ragwort destruction. Thanks Issy for providing us with a work task at short notice! We hadn’t worked at Hare Hill since September 2018 because it is a garden property, not landscape where we normally work.
The estate includes farmland and the field we worked in is currently not useable for grazing because ragwort is poisonous to animals. A corporate group had already done some work but there was still more than enough to keep us occupied for the day.
We used forks designed specifically to dig out the ragwort but it was still tiring as it was another hot day and the ground was so hard. David managed to burst into life again after a supply of stem ginger cake.
Jean
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