On a beautiful sunny morning a number of us met at the barn
to collect tools and the 200 oak trees that had been heeled in a few weeks ago
at the tree nursery in Bewerley Park Centre.
With parking limited at Longside we squeezed into as few vehicles as
possible and headed off to meet up with the others at a lay-by just outside
Ramsgill. Even though several of our
regular volunteers were absent for various reasons we still mustered a group of 14 including Paul and
took the short walk up to the planting site.
The site before the NCVs got busy.
Stakes and tree guards were spread out across the steep hillside and planting began. With a stiff breeze blowing several tree guards had to be retrieved from the bottom of the hill on more than one occasion, but for a group of mountain goats like us this was not a problem.
Work gets started.
A glorious day and a beautiful work site. What more could the NCVs want?
We soon
organised ourselves into teams, one to dig and the other to bash in the stake and
two pairs of hands to manoeuvre the tiny tree into the guard. Amazingly by 12.20pm the job was
complete. It has to be noted that we did
not stop for a coffee break, so a long lunch lazing in the sun completed our
very short day.
And there they all were - planted in no time......
...... the trees that is not the NCVs!
Anita
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