Todays Advent Calendar window opens for Wellingborough Eco Group’s Nature Rangers, who, with North Northamptonshire Council, have planted 300 trees in Kilborn Park today, and this is just the start. 44 Nature Rangers turned out today to plant trees in the freezing cold weather, well done and thank you all!
Nature Rangers has been set up to care for wildlife in Wellingborough, Rushden, Higham Ferrers and the surrounding towns and villages. The group meets regularly to do activities that give wildlife a helping hand. The monthly Saturday sessions started today to plant trees in Kilborn Park, where we met at our Ranger Station that had hot drinks and some spades available to borrow.
New Fortnightly Monday sessions start on 8th January, these will be at various locations, often meeting at ECO HUB, Glamis Hall at 10am to look at the plan over a cup of tea and to get tools. These sessions will be lead by Grow Wild Outreach and Wellingborough Eco Group, and they are open to everyone. Grow Wild Outreach will also offer the Monday sessions to those who need assistance and will provide a fully supervised service at a cost.
Nature Rangers are a partnership of Wellingborough Eco Group, Grow Wild Outreach and More Trees Now. The group is running a campaign called Sapling Savers with the More Trees Now campaign to save trees that have grown in places where they are either not going to grow or not wanted. They will collect the saplings and redistribute them to people who want trees!
The group also has a simple sharing ‘what you do and what we do together’ or ‘what you see’ group on Facebook, that focuses nature, do join in at facebook.com/groups/natureranger and you can find out more about Nature Rangers at wellingboroughecogroup.co.uk/eco/nature-rangers too.
It was a really amazing to see so many people come out today to plant trees, and it is great to see everyone coming together to do this. Thank you everyone, see you at the next Nature Rangers session soon!