A fabulous spring day

Today we discovered the first fully bloomed bluebell in the woods- very exciting! We started the morning by taking casts, using plaster of Paris, of a variety of animal tracks in the soft mud. We found Fallow Deer, squirrel, Collared Dove, rat and domestic cat prints. We then worked as a team with the wheelbarrows to move the final silver birch logs from where the tree was felled to the kiln area. We watered the seeds and planted some mint plants that had been donated to use- looking forward to some mint tea.

Later, some of us made elder beads to make necklaces, whilst others used willow we had coppiced and split to start building a willow hurdle. In the afternoon we split large chestnut poles, peeled chestnut poles and started mending one of the shave horses.