For Marsh Volunteers Rota: Click Here The Marsh: SSB’s composting site: adjacent the South West Water site on Exeter Road is open on Sunday mornings from 10am-1pm both to leave garden waste, and to buy compost. Having placed collection of compost on hold for a few weeks, compost is available for collection again. However, we still need MORE green garden waste eg. grass cuttings, dead flowers etc., and LESS wood! Please don’t bring stumps, vines, bamboo, Japanese knotweed, Himalayan balsam,…
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Sunday 23 January, Sunday 20 February; Sunday 27 March (Mother’s Day) 2022: Family Cycle Rides around Ivybridge. Join PL21 with your family at 10am at The Watermark, Ivybridge for a cycle ride around Ivybridge and enjoy breakfast at The Watermark. Trained ride leaders from Big Bike Revival will take you around quiet lanes and traffic free paths. We will be cycling at an easy pace for about 2 miles. The roads are mainly flat but there is one hill. A…
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Sustainable South Brent’s Hedges and Woodland Group - The ‘Steepers’ We undertake conservation projects like hedge laying and woodland coppicing, as well as harvesting wood fuel, in and around South Brent. We enjoy the traditional skills and satisfaction of working outdoors together, while doing our bit to maintain diverse and healthy wildlife habitats. Our practical site work takes place fortnightly during the cutting season in autumn and winter to avoid disturbance to wildlife, while in the summer we have a…
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Two Monthly Community Litter Pick from 2-4pm meeting up at Palstone Park Recreation Ground at 2pm organised by SSB’s ‘Talking Rubbish’ group. Please join us if you can. There will be some hi-vis jackets, gloves and litter-pickers available, but if you have some, please bring them. See: https://ssb.org.uk/event/community-litter-pick-2/. Every 2 months on the last Sunday of the month from 30 January 2022. FFI contact Eva or Tina at rubbish@ssb.org.uk Sunday 30 January 2022 Sunday 27 March 2022 Sunday 29 May…
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Regular Monthly meeting of SSB Trustees/directors.
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One of a series of workshops with an informal chatty feel to help reduce our carbon footprints
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We are working at 'The Luces', to bring it back to some of its former glory, transforming it into a sustainably managed communal wildlife garden with wildflowers, fruit trees and beds of edibles, and a publicly accessible footpath that allows pedestrians to avoid the narrowest part of Hillside and engage with nature, learn about rural skills and food production and enjoy a peaceful place to stop, sit, rest and contemplate. (see https://ssb.org.uk/projects/the-luces/), To do all this, the Luces Project group…
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Sustainable South Brent’s Hedges and Woodland Group - The ‘Steepers’ We undertake conservation projects like hedge laying and woodland coppicing, as well as harvesting wood fuel, in and around South Brent. We enjoy the traditional skills and satisfaction of working outdoors together, while doing our bit to maintain diverse and healthy wildlife habitats. Our practical site work takes place fortnightly during the cutting season in autumn and winter to avoid disturbance to wildlife, while in the summer we have a…
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The recently revitalised Talking Rubbish group will be holding their Zoom meeting monthly at 7pm on the Third tuesday of the month. We’ve got lots of great ideas and plenty of room for new members! Everyone welcome, so please email rubbish@ssb.org.uk if you would like to receive the Zoom invitation.
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Sustainable South Brent’s Hedges and Woodland Group - The ‘Steepers’ We undertake conservation projects like hedge laying and woodland coppicing, as well as harvesting wood fuel, in and around South Brent. We enjoy the traditional skills and satisfaction of working outdoors together, while doing our bit to maintain diverse and healthy wildlife habitats. Our practical site work takes place fortnightly during the cutting season in autumn and winter to avoid disturbance to wildlife, while in the summer we have a…
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