157 volunteers turn out for Grange Fell Care Day
Hospice Neighbours need Volunteers St Mary’s Hospice is looking for volunteers in the Ulverston & South Lakeland area to become Hospice Neighbours. The volunteers need to be over 18 and will help patients and families who are living with life-shortening conditions and wish
to remain at home. Hospice Neighbours will be asked to provide practical help and/or companionship. The volunteers will not be providing medical or personal care. Are you friendly, willing to be part of a team? Do you want to help people in your local community? Can you
commit to a few hours a week? For more information and an application form please visit: www.stmaryshospice. org.uk Or contact Anne Atkinson, Hospice Neighbours Project Manager on 01229 580305 Email: neighbours@ stmaryshopice.org.uk
This Bradley Apple is a Beauty A fabulous number of community volunteers including 70 children turned out on a cold day on Wednesday 13th November to help improve the woodlands and natural environment around Grange. The Fell Care Day involved 10 conservation activities across four sites (Eggerslack Woods, Brown Robin Nature Reserve, Lime Kiln Woods, and Grange Community Orchard) and was jointly organised by the Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands Nature Improvement Area and Friends of the Lake District. Activities included coppicing, removing invasive sycamore, cutting back woodland bramble and removing grass from 80 fruit trees in Grange Community Orchard.Volunteers also installed
a handrail alongside steps on a footpath and rebuilt 10 m of dry stone walling. The habitat restoration work will benefit a range of birds and plants, as well as rare species such as high brown and pearl bordered fritillary butterflies, and the wax cap fungi. 70 children from three local schools took part in the day Grange, Lindale and Allithwaite primary schools; as well as young people from the Mosaic Young Champions project which aims to encourage young people to get involved with and explore the Lake District National Park and pick up skills along the way. More than 300 pieces of cake were kindly donated and eaten by volunteers! Well done to everyone involved - a great community effort.
The Bradley Beauty apple was found as a wilding growing on the edge of Nichols Moss which is one of the three Mosses at Witherslack. The tree itself is unusual in producing suckers and has a tendency to coppice. The apples on the original tree are small, green and
unremarkable. However when grown on more fertile soil are much larger, more prolific and striped with red splashes. Tree growth is vigorous and generally healthy. The fruit is medium large with a strong flavour. It is self fertile, ripe in mid October, keeps until December, and is both a cooker and eating apple. It is a heavy cropper. Bob Bradley
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