We had a very successful hedge-laying course on the 8^th December at our new location, Tucking Mill Farm in Zeal Monochorum. This link gives a few more details about the course and has some photos of the day. We now have nine newly trained hedge-layers in the group thanks to our grant from Awards for All. We would really appreciate if the trained hedge-layers could turn out for the remaining sessions this winter to help us make some real progress on the hedge at Newton St Cyres.

Four of us attended the work party on the 16^th December at Newton St Cyres. We practiced our hedge laying on John Quicke's hedge and probably laid about 20 yards and in the process created a massive amount of timber to be processed next time. As it started to rain at about 2pm,  we repaired to the pub for some Christmas refreshments!

All the stacked and bagged wood at Newton St Cyres has been taken, but there is still considerable quantities of wood to be processed both at Zeal (from the hedge-laying course) and at Newton St Cyres ( following 16^th Dec work party).

The next work party dates are as follows:

Jan 2014

Sun 12^th Newton St Cyres

Mon 20^th Zeal

Feb 2014

Sun 2^nd Zeal

Mon 17^th Newton St Cyres

March 2014

Sun 2^nd TBA

Mon 17^th TBA

Finally, there is a possibility of a social outing in the spring to a small farm situated above the Taw Valley comprising pasture, woodland, orchard and vineyard. Watch out for more details.