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Jubilee Wood in December

By MichaelT on December 31, 2018   /   Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
Tags: Environment, Great Gidding, Jubilee Wood, Mill Road
Jubilee Wood in December

Jubilee Wood in December   December can be a difficult month for some people, with the nights at their longest it can seem a dark and challenging time, but if we look at the natural world we might learn a way of seeing things differently.Wandering around the

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Jubilee Wood long term maintenance project

By MichaelT on December 7, 2018   /   Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
Jubilee Wood long term maintenance project

Certain areas of the wood have now grown to a point where removing the under growth and thin trees should be considered for removal. This is best seen on the side nearest the main road where the majority of trees have grown strongly probably because the soil

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Jubilee Wood Action Morning

By MichaelT on October 6, 2018   /   Forthcoming events, Home page upcoming events, Jubilee Wood news, The Environment   /   Leave a comment
Jubilee Wood Action Morning

Annual Maintenance Blitz The usual maintenance tasks, hedge trimming, lopping and strimming in the Jubilee Wood. We do this to keep the open areas free of incursion and creep. 9.30am with the tools you favour plus stout gloves and eye protection. Refreshments! Time Saturday 1st December 2018 

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A busy apple pressing day September 2018

By The Giddings Admin on October 1, 2018   /   Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
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A busy apple pressing day September 2018

A lovely sunny morning welcomed the various pressers and extractors of apple juice to Manor Site Farm laden with apples from gardens, allotments and a paltry amount from the Jubilee Wood apple trees. Using the community apple press and apple pulper the crew soon got to grips

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Jubilee Wood September 2018

By MichaelT on October 1, 2018   /   Community, Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
Tags: Environment, Great Gidding, Jubilee Wood, Mill Road, wildlife
Jubilee Wood September 2018

Autumn approaches but the wood is still full of leaf even if there are some early signs of yellowing in some of the trees. John Keats’ poem To Autumn with its famous first line: Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness always makes me think of cooler mornings

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Jubilee Wood August 2018

By The Giddings Admin on October 1, 2018   /   Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
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Jubilee Wood August 2018

August weather has been a little more familiar than the heatwave we’ve experienced over the last couple of months but as always, nature adapts and familiar sights are in the wood even if they are a little earlier in the season than we would expect. Look out

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Jubilee Wood July 2018

By The Giddings Admin on October 1, 2018   /   Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
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Jubilee Wood July 2018

Although it’s  been a very dry and hot month, the trees in the wood appear to be coping although the lowering of the pond level shows just how much the water table has gone down so they must be digging deep with their roots. All species will

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Jubilee wood – June 2018

By The Giddings Admin on October 1, 2018   /   Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
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Jubilee wood - June 2018

June is bursting out all over in the Jubilee wood! The trees have exploded into life, their leaves forming a canopy of green in every shade nature can manage. The flowers on the fruit and hazel trees have already started to form into fruit and nuts (see

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The Jubilee Wood in May

By MichaelT on June 8, 2018   /   Community, Home page latest news, Jubilee Wood news   /   Leave a comment
Tags: Environment, Great Gidding, Jubilee Wood, Mill Road
The Jubilee Wood in May

Jubilee Wood in May 2018 May has been another interesting month weather wise, sometimes pouring with rain and at other times so hot it’s been difficult to be outside.It doesn’t seem to have bothered Mother Nature though, and the Jubilee wood is growing at a fast pace,

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Jubilee Wood April 2018

By MichaelT on May 4, 2018   /   Community, Home page latest news, Jubilee Wood news, Newt articles, The Environment   /   Leave a comment
Tags: Environment, Great Gidding, Jubilee Wood, newt trail
Jubilee Wood  April 2018

Jubilee Wood April was quite a month of extremes in terms of weather, but nature has a way of forging on regardless whilst most of us humans are struggling to cope. The great crested newts are a good example, having overwintered near to the pond under stones

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