Other events
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Urban Nature
URBAN NATURE is a conservation project at the Allotments that manages some of our wild life plots to provide as much habitat as possible for the locally rare and fascinating wildlife.
Thanks to a donation of 104 mixed tree saplings from the Woodland Trust volunteers from STAA’s Wildlife Focus Group have recently begun the creation of a hazel and oak coppice on the wildlife area of Gorsey Close Gardens. It is intended that as new trees mature we will be able to coppice them and provide a source of bean poles and pea sticks for tenants. The coppice will also add significantly to the educational and wildlife value of the allotments.
Unfortunately, we don’t yet have enough hazel trees to cover the proposed coppice area, so if you have any hazel saplings that have sprung up in your garden that you would be willing to donate to the project, they would be very much appreciated. Please place them next to the Wildlife Information Board just inside the Ransom Road entrance (preferably potted up to protect them). If you have other varieties of tree saplings that you would like to donate (not sycamore!) I am sure that we will be able to find somewhere for them within the site conservation areas.
If you would like to take part in tree planting, along with a variety of other seasonal wildlife projects, the Wildlife Focus Group would welcome your support.
We meet at 10am, generally every first and third Saturday of the month, at the Ransom Road entrance, and usually finish by 2pm.
The task days for the New Year are
21st January
4th February
18th February
4th March.
For further information click here
If you are interested, please contact Robert Zviko on 0115 911 0207 or email robert_partnership@staa-allotments.org.uk
For more information go to http://urbannature.webs.com or contact Urban Nature direct on 07814 313941 or email Urban-nature@hotmail.co.uk
Pruning Workshops 
December to March, as many of you will know, is the time to prune apple and pear trees. We have run the two workshops this winter to support tenants looking after their trees. We will run a session for soft fruit trees in August - watch the web site for information, or contact the office to get your name down.
Contact the STAA office for more details.
