Wet Socks

Our Wetland Walk down near Sandown has always been one of the most popular of the Gift to Nature project sites, visited by thousands of locals and visitors alike each year. It's also a great place for hands-on conservation tasks and that's just what went on last week with the excellent Newchurch Scouts. Here you can see them stuffing new wetland plants into old socks pre-filled with stones before hurling them into the pond and watching them sink to the bottom. This is our patented method for hard-to-reach spots and it works a treat.

And here's a set ready to go:

The Scouts also made some excellent mining-bee homes:




All in all much good work was done for the Wetland Walk and Mother Nature and great fun had by all; and what would a Scout event be without something tribal too?