TT volunteers and supporters had a jolly get-together at our Autumn Gathering with many delicious treats. Many thanks to our skilled assembly line who worked hard to produce some high-class green bunting!
The pine-cone hedgehog making was popular.
There was much chat over cups of tea.
We hope it can become an annual event in the TT calendar celebrating all our work over the year!
The answers to our TT quiz are as follows:
- What does HS4N stand for? Hexham Space for Nature
- Where might you find the work of our Edible Hexham team? In raised beds at Hexham railway station, opposite The Wentworth cafe by the steps into town from Wentworth Car Park, at Sele Gate, and outside the Garden Café
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What is ‘Just Fix It’? Hexham’s Repair Cafe shortly to re-appear at Hexham Public Library.
- Where can you find The Glade and the Woodland Border? Follow the path between Hexham House and the Sele public park.
- What is Biodiversity?
- A vegan shower gel?
- a new band?
- All the different kinds of life you’ll find in one area
- Name three common plants that are poisonous to dogs? The list might include foxgloves, delphiniums, dicentra, Bergenia,azaleas and rhododendrons, grapes, aliums which include onions, garlic,chives,shallots and leeks.
- Name three pollinators? The list might include butterflies, damsel flies, bees, moths, flies and beetles.
- How many toes does a cat have on each front paw? 5
- What is apiculture? The raising and caring of bees.
- Why do we need to protect our ancient woods?
- They look pretty
- They capture and store carbon through the process of photosynthesis
- We like to climb the trees
- We use the wood to build houses
- Is a veteran tree older, or younger than an ancient tree?
All ancient trees are veteran; but not all veteran trees are ancient. Confused? The Woodland Trust definition helps!
“An ancient tree is one that has passed beyond maturity and is old, or aged, in comparison with other trees of the same species.”
“A veteran tree is a survivor that has developed some of the features found on an ancient tree, not necessarily as a consequence of time, but of its life or environment.”
- What is a screaming party? It is a group of two or more swifts flying and calling loudly at low level, or just above rooftop height.
- Where can you find the Bee Bed in Prudhoe? Outside one of the busiest parts of Prudhoe, the Co Op.
- What are Ashmead’s Kernel, Newton Wonder, Ellison’s Orange, Katy, Red Sentinel, Sunset? They are all varieties of apple trees planted by TT volunteers at Acomb First School and at Tyne Green.
- Where can you find a seed library in Hexham? In Hexham Public Library.
