Celebrate Wye’s Woods!

Celebrate Wye’s Woods is an afternoon of family-friendly activities and nature-related fun at Wye National Nature Reserve, on Saturday 26th June running between 2pm and 5pm

 

 

The event is jointly run by Natural England, Wye Community Farm and Butterfly Conservation and aims to give people an enjoyable opportunity to wander around this fantastic nature reserve, incorporating magnificent views, fantastic chalk grassland and wonderful woodlands.
Wye National Nature Reserve is home to 20 different types of orchid, and 30 different types of butterfly such as the dazzling Adonis Blue and the tiny and rare Duke of Burgundy. The event hopes to highlight how and why the site is as fabulous for wildlife, as it is, and there will be opportunities to take a guided walk around the reserve.
The afternoon includes hands-on children’s craft activities such as willow weaving, and chalk drawing as well as opportunities to see ‘woodlands at work’ with Wye Community Farm making charcoal at their very own kiln and horses extracting timber from recently coppiced woodland.
A BBQ will run from 3pm to 5pm selling sausages from Wye Community Farm and cooked using the ‘home-made’ charcoal too!
By coppicing woodland (cutting small blocks of woodland on a cyclical basis for making products such as charcoal) areas are continually opened up, providing bright, flower-rich areas which are vital for many woodland butterflies to feed and breed.
Fran Thompson, Butterfly Conservation says “charcoal making is one of many traditional practices in our woodlands which once widespread, has all but disappeared in recent times. By buying products from our local woodlands, such as charcoal, you can help woodland wildlife, and keep a traditional practice alive”.
Entry to the event is free, whilst limited parking is available at the reserve, a shuttle bus will run from Wye train station between 2pm – 5pm.
For more information on the event, please see www.dengewoods.org

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