Ashdown Forest Living July 2021 Issue

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Dear fellow gardeners and plant lovers! Charity plant sale on Saturday 18th September, 9am -11:30am, The Swan Garden, Forest Row, RH18 5ER. The plan is for as many of us Forest Row (and surrounding areas) folk to take and propagate ten (or any number of ) cuttings from interesting or loved plants/herbs/shrubs/ climbers etc. this month, then in September when they are well-rooted and established in their (labelled) pots we will sell them to each

other for £1 per plant, all proceeds going to local charities. The first hour of the sale will be for the suppliers of the plants then at 10am opening up to the public. Please bring your plants on the day between 8:30am and 9am.

It will be a lovely way to meet each other, gain some new, interesting plants and raise some money.

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Dear Residents, Welcome to the July issue.

Whats inside this month

This month our fingers are crossed for lots of lovely sunshine!

We have brought you some great local articles of interest, history and community news from a new discovery about Hever’s Anne Boleyn to some local outdoors events. We do hope you enjoy. Please send us through your news.

Our magazine has been going for 11 years now! We deliver to Forest row, Crowborough, Lindfield, Maresfield, Groombridge, Buxted and more.

Our delivery is carried out by Royal Mail. Please do drop us a line if you do not receive the magazine one month so we can look into it for you; we want to ensure all our readers receive it, each month.

Anne Boleyn’s Secret Champions

The Rude Mechanicals

News from the Forest

A Phoenix from the Flames

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Have a lovely Summer, Tally & Chris Ashdown Forest Living To advertise call 01342 300152 info@ashdownforestliving.co.uk www.ashdownforestliving.co.uk

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Like most of us when the weather heats up, all we want is food that is fresh and vibrant and easy to prepare!

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• 300g fresh or frozen peas • 1 red onion • 1 tbsp olive oil • 1 tbsp fresh mint chopped

Start by finely chopping the onion and adding it to a frying pan along with the olive oil.

Leave to cook over medium heat for 5-10 minutes until soft. Whilst the onions cook pour a freshly boiled kettle of water over the peas just to soften them slightly.

Once the onions are cooked add the peas and mint to the pan and season with salt and pepper. Turn the heat up to get the onions and peas a little crispy, then add to your bowl.

Apple Slaw • 1 large green apple

• 175g white or red cabbage • 50ml olive oil • 1 tbsp lemon juice • 1 tbsp agave syrup or honey • 1 tsp cumin • salt and pepper to taste

Extras: • greek yogurt (vegan or dairy) • hummus (optional) • freshly sliced sourdough or garlic bread • poached egg (optional) To make the dressing add the oil, lemon juice, agave, cumin, and some salt and pepper to a jar and give it a vigorous shake to combine, or throw all in your nutri bullet. Finely chop the apple and cabbage into small thin slices and pour over the dressing and mix well.

Add the slaw to your bowl and serve with some rocket and mixed leaves. Either add a dollop of hummus or Greek vegan yogurt with a pinch of chili flakes, but a poached egg would work perfectly with this dish!

Serve with slices of sourdough, or garlic bread.

Enjoy x

This recipe was produced by Annabell from Conscious Cooking who will be one of our new chefs at the forthcoming Seasons Kitchen Cafe in Forest Row. You can follow Annabell on her Instagram feed using @ bellsplantkitchen

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Wildhart Radio is a new and exciting project with a dream. A nonprofit, community radio internet-based station aiming to provide a platform and a voice to Forest Row and the surrounding areas. We are a grassroots service aiming to showcase local creative talent, celebrate our unique diversity and offer a way to bring our community together. Radio can be courageous and provide live cutting-edge music, drama, comedy, free speech, wellbeing, and up-to-the minute local news.

Wildhart Radio was conceived in lockdown last year; a phoenix from the flames. Communities recognised the need to support one another virtually, reach out to those who were lonely, support local business and do what we could. We want to showcase local talent,

creativity and have fun.

To bring together all ages, opinions, skills and life experiences. To use freedom of expression, freespeech, diversity, inclusion and represent the uniqueness of Forest Row. We believe our strength is a high level of community participation in producing programmes to learn technical skills, interviewing techniques, editing, research and other aspects of running a radio station.

We believe that building this project with the community will make it sustainable, rooted, and give a sense of shared ownership.

Wildhart Radio may have been created in a crisis but together we are creating something special.

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NEWS FROM THE FOREST

Well, here we are in the middle of summer and at the time of writing a chilly wind blows the rain horizontally across a slategrey sky; this provides a strong juxtaposition with the heat of the previous couple of weeks. It’s just been that kind of Summer.

A good mixture of sunshine and precipitation, though, is what plant life like best and right across the forest we see grasses, bracken and forbs growing very quickly. As lovely as all this new growth is, it can prove a danger when obscuring the view from carpark exit points and ride crossings. Our countryside team undertake a busy program of verge cutting at this time of year to keep the view of the road clear for car drivers and horse riders alike.

Lots of plant growth is great for our grazing animals. It means that the sheep, cattle and ponies have the chance to eat plenty and, let's face it, that’s what they are here for – to help with managing the habitat. However, the electric fencing we use for our livestock enclosures is negatively affected by high plant growth. Vegetation along the fence lines requires

regular strimming to keep the fence working and the animals safe.

You will now see sheep and cattle grazing on the south chase in the grazing enclosure. As a result, extra care should be taken when driving between the cattle grids on Crowborough Road.

The animals will often wander out on to the road or sit in the shade along the verges and can sometimes be difficult to spot in the dappled light.

Whilst we welcome dog walkers, we would remind you that your canine chums must always be under close control. As alluded to earlier, there are lots of areas where grazing animals roam across Ashdown Forest. There are also heathland sites populated by ground nesting birds that are easily disturbed by dogs ranging through the undergrowth. Young fawns will be spending a lot of time hiding out in rough

vegetation and are at risk of disturbance or even attack should they be found.

A forest-wide Nightjar survey took place in the last couple of weeks of June. These nocturnal birds start to arrive in the UK towards the end of April from Africa and are one of the reasons Ashdown Forest is designated as an SPA - special protection area.

It can be a really rewarding experience to take a dusk stroll and hear the males churring. Given the birds amber-listed status it is important that we gather a better understanding of its numbers, and those of other species across the forest. It is by gathering this sort of data that we are better able to inform our conservation practices going forwards.

So, weather allowing, a lovely time on Ashdown Forest can be had. The trees are in leaf and there is a wide variety of other flora and fauna to be enjoyed.

Enjoy yourselves and enjoy the wildlife.

Our car parks are free to use but please consider giving a donation through our website to help towards the upkeep and maintenance of the forest and car parks. www.ashdownforest.org

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Wildlife pond with bog garden with lilies. Veggie patch with raised beds and soft-fruit garden.

Friday 23rd July 1pm - 5pm Pre-booking available, not essential. Home-made teas in Waldron Village Hall. Refreshments in aid of Family Support Work. Adult: £5. Child: Free.

Please check online for all the latest information and details before you travel.

Saturday 17th July 11am - 4pm, Pre-booking essential.

Light refreshments. Adult: £5, Child: Free

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27 Mill Way, 16 Musgrave Avenue, Imberhorne Allotments, 5 Nightingale Close Established gardens, displaying a mix of planting including shrubs, perennials, dahlias and annuals, tubs and baskets. 16 Musgrave Avenue has a thriving vegetable garden.

7 Nightingale Close is on heavy clay in a frost pocket going down to a stream, plus a potager and collection of bonsai. Imberhorne Allotments consist of 80 plots with a diverse mix of planting including grape vines, fruit, flowers and a community orchard.

Sunday 25th July 12pm - 5pm Pre-booking available, not essential. Refreshments: Home-made teas at 16 Musgrave Avenue. Adult: £5, Child: Free. Please note that sometimes not all gardens open on every open day.

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Anne Boleyn’s childhood home, the beautiful Hever Castle, is on our doorstep, nestled in Kent on the Sussex border. Lovingly preserved as a window to the Tudor world, a time period that would be obsessed over by so many down the centuries.

The historical fascination with the life of Anne Boleyn continues with gusto in the 21st century. Last month new research on her historic prayerbook was unveiled, shedding further light on what happened soon after her death.

Research conducted into the Book of Hours prayerbooks on display in Anne Boleyn’s childhood home has revealed never seen before names and words hidden in the pages of the historic volume.

Using ultraviolet light and photo editing software, it has been discovered what happened to the volume after Anne was executed in 1536 and when legend has it, she handed the book to one of her ladies.

Former Hever Castle steward Kate McCaffrey spent nearly a year studying the two prayerbooks and discovered wording in the printed Book of Hours which had been undiscovered for hundreds of years.

Following the demise of Anne Boleyn, despite pressure to remove all items belonging to the former queen, the prayerbook she is believed to have taken to her execution still survives.

And why this beautifully illustrated prayerbook survives was revealed in Kate’s research, part of her thesis for her masters in Medieval and early modern studies at the University of Kent.

Kate, who worked at Hever Castle as a visitor experience assistant for about six years, was given special permission to look into the prayerbooks which previously was thought only to contain just one inscription.

Using ultraviolet light and photo editing software she discovered three family names written in the book; Gage, West, and Shirley (from Sundridge, near Sevenoaks). These three names centre around a fourth, the Guildford family of Cranbrook in Kent.

Kate’s research uncovered that the book was passed from female to female, of families not only local to the Boleyn family at Hever but also connected by kin.

She explained: “It is clear that this book was passed between a network of trusted connections, from daughter to mother, from sister to niece. If the book had fallen into other hands, questions almost certainly would have been raised over the remaining presence of Anne’s signature. Instead, the book was passed carefully between a group of primarily women who

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three contain her signed inscriptions. One is held at the British Library, the other two at Hever.

“In a world with very limited opportunities for women to engage with religion and literature, the simple act of marking this Hours and keeping the secret of its most famous user, was one small way to generate a sense of community and expression.”

She added: “It was incredibly exciting and surreal to uncover these erased inscriptions, and it has been an absolute privilege to restore the names of their authors and recover their stories. What is perhaps most remarkable is that these inscriptions have been unknown and unstudied for so long.”

Dr David Rundle, Kate’s supervisor said: “It is every graduate student’s dream to uncover previously hidden information about a wellknown historical figure. Kate’s energy and enterprise have allowed her to do just that, even in the depths of the pandemic when libraries were out of all researchers’ reach.

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Kate also discovered as part of her research that a copy of the printed Book of Hours in the Morgan Library in New York belonged to Anne’s greatest rival in power and love, the Queen of England, Catherine of Aragon.

has potentially highly significant implications for our understanding of Anne Boleyn and her posthumous reputation.”

Hever Castle has on display two illuminated Book of Hours prayerbooks, belonging to Anne Boleyn, which she had written in and which bear her signature.

As this goes to press “The Boleyns: A Scandalous Family!”, three-part docudrama, will shortly be shown on BBC 2. Dr Owen Emmerson, assistant curator of Hever Castle, makes several contributions. Hever will play a prominent role and I’m sure many readers will find it a fascinating watch.

The book, which she may have taken to her execution, bears the touching inscription, “remember me when you do pray, that hope dothe led from day to day”.

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Busy bees welcome at Horsted Green Park Horsted Green Park (Little Horsted, Uckfield), Wealden’s latest country park, is frequented by hundreds of visitors and their dogs each year. But a far corner of the park has become home to a thriving industry of pollinators – thanks to the High Weald Beekeepers’ Association.

The swathes of buttercups enjoying the summer sun outside of Uckfield provide some of the pollen and the nectar that the bees live on and use to make honey. They will fly as far as three miles to find nectar and pollen, and by visiting different flowers along the way, help to fertilise many thousands of plants to provide fruit, seed and crops for the future. No pesticides are used at Horsted Green making it a great home for the bees.

“June and July are very busy months for our bees,” explained Dr Peter Coxon,

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“There can be up to 60,000 female worker bees in a hive serving just one queen.

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“Alongside the worker bees in the hive will be some 1000 male drones. These bees don’t sting. They may get a chance to fertilise the queen.

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“We are glad the bees enjoy living at Horsted Green Park,” said Councillor Roy Galley, Wealden Cabinet member responsible for Climate Change. “It is important we all help provide the conditions in which they can thrive and help keep our countryside green and fertile.”

“The many different species of bee play an outstanding role in the ecology of the planet,” explains Dr Coxon. “Bees are responsible for pollinating 70 of the around 100 crop species that feed 90% of the world. Without their efforts, whole food chains could collapse, putting the human

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“Unfortunately bee populations are under threat from pesticides, the loss of flower meadows, the predatory varroa mite and climate change. That is why it is important to encourage bee colonies wherever we can.”

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