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OVER THE HILL John has just started work on a new area known as 'Barrow Wood' lower down
near to the dual carriageway. The area in Barrow Wood is nearly 20 years old and
so the coppiced material is of little use other than for firewood. John is cutting this
area in order to get it back in proper rotation (normally around seven years). John
iIam sitting at my computer looking out of the widow at rain pouring down on will deliver his coppiced material locally. The items he has on sale now are:
what was already a very wet countryside. The lawn and the surrounding fields are
a brilliant shiny green colour. Already we are seeing buds bursting into small green Unseasoned Hazel firewood at £100 / load. Bean poles at £1 each
leaves both in the garden and on the hedges of the countryside. A few trees are Pea sticks at £7 bundle of 10. By purchasing from John you will be supporting a
also showing signs of coming into leaf and the grassland; that is in fields around traditional craft and wildlife conservation at Kite Hill.
us, will provide sumptuous grazing for all the cattle and sheep.
John Sweeney may be contacted on 07732 970484 or by email at
While fields of the johnjosephsweeney44@gmail.com
R i v e r P i d d l e ’ s
m e a d o w s ,
resplendent in their Contact Us
new growth of what If you would like to know more about the work of the Wildlife Group or to be
will in fact be a included on our mailing list, please contact:
godsend later in the
year, but will f it Tony Bates at tonybates19@gmail.com / 01929 471563 or
remains wet, it will of
course mean, that Mike Gee at mike.n.g@outlook.com / 0775 988 4942.
grazing is not
available until the
surface of he land is
fit for animals to meander, without destroying the soil structure with their hooves.
The arable fields of the surrounding district of autumn sown cereals also look Kites Hill Coppice
resplendently green and can only mean a wonderful start of the year, with a
promise of a splendid harvest to remember
Wild flowers, such as the snowdrops which have been flowering since early
January are still in abundance, providing a wonderful display, beautiful to the  Unseasoned Hazel Firewood - £100/load
eye, on the roadside banks here in Turnerspuddle and in the churchyard. They are
particularly still showing a resilience, providing a beautiful display of shiny, waxy  Bean poles - £1 each
white flowers. Also at the western entrance to the Bere
Regis churchyard there is a wonderful yellow carpet of  Pea Sticks - £7 bundle of 10
celandines.. Primroses are also beginning to flower.
Now I have to mention cowslips, bluebells, wood
anemones, buttercups, red campions, dandelions, white
and bladder campions and stitchworts, all soon to be in
flower. Bluebells will soon be seen by all, as there are All on sale Now!
pieces of woodland, bordering on most of the roads from
the village which are inundated with them. As they will be
coming. we will be privileged to see a wonderful showing John Sweeney
of wood anemones, which unfortunately are short lived.
Also found on the road’s grass verges, in the woodland, in 07732 970484
fields as yet not grazed or cut for hay or silage and also in

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