After several days of very wet weather, the BBC weather team came through and gave us a really nice morning to work on Adel Moor – it was a bit touch and go, though: beautiful sunshine at about 8 and heavy rain at about 9 am.
We had a great turn out of 9 friends and continued with our program of clearing bracken, saplings, and brambles from the moor. As you can see from the picture above, the heather is looking fantastic and definitely inspires a feeling of joy in the heart!
The work which FOAW have carried out over the last 10 years – and the work carried out by many other volunteers – is definitely paying off. It was also gratifying to find that beneath many of the bracken plants there were young heather seedlings coming up.
Friends of Adel Woods 