Learn about the River Dart + make your own River bundle this half term

The weather for half term looks great! Come down to the farm to make willow and hazel bundles for a restoration project happening right now on the River Dart

Date: Wednesday 30th October

Time: 10am-3pm

Location: Ambios, Lower Sharpham Barton Farm, Ashprington, Totnes, TQ9 7DX

Willow & Hazel Bundles

FREE EVENT

Places limited, book a ticket today!

• Everyone is welcome for this FREE half-term holiday activity

• ParkLife SW will run the activity at Lower Sharpham Barton Farm where the land meets the Dart
  

• Help make a "Dart Repair Kit" of brushwood bundles (called faggots) out of coppiced willow and hazel

• We will learn what saltmarshes are and why they are so valuable

• The bundles we make are intended to be staked at the upper fringe of the Dart Estuary shores–the bundles slow the flow of tidal waters so they drop sediment, encouraging saltmarsh to establish and supporting aquatic life
  

• The Saltmarsh Project supports saltmarsh habitats to re-establish in the Dart Estuary and is run by local partners Dart Harbour and Bioregional Learning Centre, with South Devon National Landscape and Devon Wildlife Trust. Funded by the EA, the project is in its third year and has wide backing and support from many different parties. It was featured at this year’s UK Saltmarsh Forum.

What to wear and bring:

• There is onsite shelter if it rains

• Bring a pack lunch, light refreshments provided

• Drinking water is onsite, and loos, but bring your own water bottles

• No tools needed, bring garden gloves (some will be available)

• Wear working clothes and strong footwear

This event is for you if you are:

• Wanting a nature-based half-term event for you and your children or grandchildren

• Looking to help with a real project to benefit the Dart and its habitats

• Interested in learning more about saltmarshes, the Dart and the natural world

Getting here/parking:

• Address: Lower Sharpham Barton Farm, TQ9 7DX

• Ambios is a 45-minute walk from Totnes town along the scenic cycle path. Please see https://www.ambios.net/directions-to-lower-sharpham-farm/ for walking/cycling.

• Parking will be available at the farm (w3w///acids.fond.alarm) arrive, and turn left into the main farm yard parking area.

• Well behaved dogs welcome. Dogs must be kept on a lead at all times.

Questions:

ParkLife: Keith 07779242191, office@parklifesw.org.uk

Ambios: 07816 978609, www.ambios.net

James Roberts, ParkLife Ecology Director

Andrew Price, ParkLife Operations Director