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Work parties

Sunday 13th February

Kings Field work party

A chance to see our other main reserve and help clearing up while the sheep are livng elsewhere.
From 10 am to 2.00 pm come any time, Barbecue freshments at lunch time,

If this is your first visit to Kings Field click here for map and details

Sunday 20th February

Monthly winterwork at Noakes Grove. Continuing work on coppicing a block of the spinney and making a dead hedge. Also some work preparing the school room for the new season,

From 10 am to 3.00 pm come any time, Bring your own refreshments

The King's Field Bridge

The bridge for Kings Field has now been delivered and is ready to be installed across the Bumpstead Brook. When in place, there will be a nice walking circuit around the whole reserve and well as a means of allowing the sheep to graze on either side of the brook.

Three cheers to Peter Savic and John Bagley who organised the whole project, found the bridge and the professional team to move it as well as well as a team of sturdy volunteers to do the spadework.

Where are our exported sheep ?

Two of our 2021 ewe lambs plus, two of the old ewes from their grandparents' generation, now live at Heron Meadow in Norfolk.

Heron Meadow is a piece of countryside managed for the benefit of wildlife and the well-being of its visitors: a community interer company like Walden Countryside activities in Essex,

The sheep are obviously enjoying their new home.

HEON meadow Sheep

Our remaining sheep

For a month or two there will be no sheep to greet you at either Kings Field nor Noakes Grove.

Gaffer (our ram) has gone to live in Ickleton with Gaul (the ram who sired our 2021 lambs). He wll be back with us in the autumn.

The pregnant (we hope) ewes are grazing a private Radwinter field and will be be back at Noakes Grove before they give birth in the Spring.

The "retired" ewes live close-to Noakes Grove on private paddocks in Sewards End.

Finally, the eleven 2021 ram lambs have all been sold as freezer-ready meat. This is a real contribution to the availability of high quality local food as well as giving us an income of almost £1000 towards the cost of managing our nature reserves.

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