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  • When we bought the land in 2013 it was a bit like a scrap yard width:800;;height:600
  • An abandoned Brewery Trailer and lots of other bits and pieces. width:800;;height:600
  • The clearance began in earnest. width:800;;height:600
  • Clearing it for its new residents who seemed to like it. width:800;;height:600
  • January 2016. Pollarding trees and laying hedges. width:800;;height:600
  • February 2016. Tree planting by pupils of Sir Roger Manwoods School in Kent width:800;;height:450
  • March 2016 .Pupils from nearby Measham School planting trees width:800;;height:450
  • Owls welcome in either of the boxes in the aincient oaks. width:800;;height:450
  • One of a number of Bird and Bat boxes put up round the meadow. width:800;;height:450
  • Mar 2016. The fruit trees planted in the southern corner. width:800;;height:450
  • May 2016 after the meadow had been topped and the tree rows mowed. width:800;;height:600
  • May 2016. Looking north from the Gilwiskaw Brook over the now laid hedge and new tree plantings. width:800;;height:449
  • May 2016. Looking along the meadow with the brook on the left, towards the ordhard. width:800;;height:449
  • The Gilwiskaw Brook forms an attractive Southern boundary to the Meadow. width:800;;height:450
  • Our Meadow Flower selection was made in conjunction with Natural England width:800;;height:566
  • We have planted a variety of English trees to produce mixed interesting coppices. width:800;;height:566
  • Corncockle growing in the Meadow width:800;;height:600
  • The beehive installed and the residents are working on the meadow grasses and flowers width:800;;height:600
  • Oxeye Daisies are springing up. width:800;;height:599
  • Common Knapweed was amongst the earliest to show width:800;;height:599
  • End of August and it is the end of the first season for the Meadow width:800;;height:450
  • A day later it is mowed and soon to be baled width:800;;height:450
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