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Our first flag is up! For the last few Fridays Charley was at What If We Create in Freshney Place with some of our craft ladies helping to print flags for our nature walk, while our other volunteers on site have been repurposing scaffolding poles to hang them from. This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities

We are starting to put the word around about our nature walk open day, and the plans are all beginning to come together. Please help us to make the day a big success and share the poster about the event, so we can have a great day (hopefully in the sunshine!) and have as many folks on site as we can to enjoy our special space!

Working in the sunshine. What a beautiful day to have CATCH on site working with our volunteers to finish the dead-hedging around the nature trail in the woods. It's only a month to go now until our official open day on April 11 when visitors will be able to see the results of all this hard work!

The gable end on site has been needing some tlc for a while! A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step. The sun is out and we are all busy getting ready for the opening of our Nature Walk next month - it has felt a bit overwhelming with the amount of jobs to do, but today has shown the power of teamwork. I was flagging a bit after painting the gable end, and couldn't quite manage the last tip of the painting. Noel asked for my brush, and for me to foot the ladde

The memorial garden on site. Our memorial garden was set up a few years ago along with Near and Near. It is looked after by our volunteers who carefully tend this area with thoughts of people who are no longer with us, they've been planting some bulbs ready for next spring.

Willow rods leftover from the pond fencing. After Alison from Lincolnshire Willow had finished weaving her magic around the pond, she had some leftover willow rods which she suggested that we plant around the edge of the woodland. Noel, Jan, Alison and Sarah braved the rain to put these in with cardboard mulch covers - hopefully they will root and fill in a bit of a gap in the woodland.

We've had some amazing carved posts done for our new nature walk, these were done by woodcarver Allen Stichler and now we are deciding where to put them in our woodland. Today volunteer Noel brought his dowsing rods on site and was finding ley lines so we can choose where to put the remaining posts. Our nature walk is starting to take shape, we just need the site to dry up a bit more as it's muddy out there! Using dowsing rods in the woodland.

We didn't think that their would be much to see when Tim Bruning, a fungi expert, came on site this morning, as it was starting to snow. But how wrong we were. Tim is sending some of the samples away for identification, but did identify in situ, turkey tails and netted crust. Tim looking for fungi on dead wood in our woods. These beautiful turkey tails look like oyster shells, and varied in colour from dun browns to oranges.

Our orchard is home to lots of different heritage apple trees. Last month they were wassailed to by Grimsby Morris and this month our long-standing volunteer Kieran has bene pruning the trees, this makes sure that there will be plenty of light and air for the trees as they grow their apples through the summer. We will be using this year's apple crop to make juice again, as it was really popular last autumn and at the wassail. It's important to prune the trees before the end o