We have pathways!

 On Wednesday 11th November we did a lot of heavy lifting!

Firstly, Georgia and Natasha bought in some more bags of bark for the pathways, which were 100l bags so were super heavy! We started taking it over to the meadow area using the trailer so we didn't injure ourselves. Once we had got it over there, Lizzie and Natasha began filling the rest of the pathway and the reflection area with all the bark, while Georgia started to get rid of all the dreaded fallen leaves!







Once we had filled these areas with the bark, we decided to create one of our pathways in the woodland area behind the meadow. However, because there are trees in this area, the roots are too close for us to dig a layer of soil out, to then lay the black sheeting ready for the bark. We pondered on what to do for a while until Natasha suggested that we use the soil we have already previously dug up, to make a small raised wall as the edges of the pathway. We were a bit unsure at first as to whether it might look a bit strange, but we tried it nonetheless and it looked great! As Natasha was collecting the soil, Lizzie was making the walls either side, and Georgia was laying the bark as we went...team work!

At this point, we had run out of black sheeting so decided we would leave our last pathway until next week. We then thought it would be a good idea to go and look properly at all the pallets everyone has kindly donated, and decided which ones would be used for what. We picked 5 larger square ones for the bug hotel, and the rectangle ones for the reflection bench. Just like with the bags of bark, we found out the pallets were heavier than anticipated! There was a lot of laughter that came with trying to carry them though, and in the end we decided it would probably be easier to just layer them on top of one another on the trailer...so that's exactly what we did.

We took over the pallets for the bug hotel and placed them where we wanted it to go. We then placed our tiles on the top as a start, and decided we would bring as many items as we could find for next week so the gardening club could create all the insides exactly how they like!