Dear Friends,

Festival of Nature

I am delighted to report that this year’s Festival of Nature programme is now published and can be found here. The event is to be held on Saturday May 18th and includes several sessions with our local naturalist Ed Drewitt. Three of the programmed events need booking in advance.

This year we have a particular interest in local history and our relationship with nature. If you have any stories about the area from the old farming days, we would be delighted to hear them.  We also welcome Emerson’s Vets, Avon Wildlife Trust and the Cubs and Scouts. We will have some plants for sale including freshly grafted apple trees suitable for your garden as well as some food made from last year’s park produce. Proceeds to the Friends of Emersons Green Park. We look forward to seeing you on the day.

Also – you will see that our community orchard is well in bloom and all the new trees seem to have made it through the rather odd seasons we have been having.  The bare patch near Emersons Green Lane is being sown with wild flowers so we are hoping, if the weather is kind, that we shall have a beautiful, bee-friendly area shortly. It would be great if a few new people wanted to join us to help with orchard and are incorporating some week day work sessions to see if that helps. Our work parties this year are planned from 10am until 12 noon on these days

Wed Apr 24^th
Sat May 11^th
Wed June 19^th
Sat July 13^th
Wed Sept 11^th
Sat Oct 12^th