Having pretty well cleared the glade area we now had some empty spaces. They needed to be enclosed to define the area so for the Sunday 25th February work party we began building some dead hedges.
This photo is looking into the glade from the path alongside the Sort It centre ...
... and this is looking back at the path from inside the glade.
It was alongside this path that we started the dead hedge.
Jim, Cathy and Eric started placing the upright stakes that form the 'skeleton' of the hedge that supports the body ...
... and helped by Peter they are now weaving some thinner branches between the stakes for the 'body'.
This is the resulting dead hedge alongside the path, leaving a gap for an entrance.
The hedge was extended around the corner ...
... and we finished off for the day after making a lot of progress with the hedge.
We returned for the Sunday work party on March 8th and carried on from where we had left off.
We were going to carry the dead hedge on towards the trees to make a proper boundary.
Stakes were placed up to the point where we reached a small shrubby tree. It was not in a good state so we decided to take it down and use the resulting material to extend the hedge.
The material was cut and trimmed to make more stakes ...
... which Eric hammered into the ground to extend the 'skeleton'.
This was then filled to make the body.
Over the two work parties an extensive hedge was made to form a neat edge to this new area. There is still some way to go before the hedge is complete but the volunteers have made a lot of progress.
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