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My perky white ears pricked up when I heard my human say ...walk to Cheddleton event...
That's not our usual walkies but I know it and the weather was dry.

Yesterday I was out hedgelaying with the Churnet Valley Practical Projects volunteer team. We tackled a 'hedge' near Swinscoe that some might have been tempted to rip out and replant... but not us.!

Walks in February can remind you of winter but a short walk from Cheddleton to Consall along the canal and back along roads was full of bright green and suggested that spring was coming.

This is the time of year when our member businesses are preparing for the coming tourism season. Our members include any small or micro business that benefits from tourism, which is wider than just accommodation providers.

Visitors to this part of Staffordshire, both from UK and abroad, are often heard to express their delight on seeing just part of the beautiful countryside that surrounds us  People often talk about the countryside in the romantic terms of "Hills and Valleys" , "Woods and Streams" or "Mountains an

Very pleased to have passed cs38&39 tree climbing with Billy. Thanks to the excellent tuition by Shaun of Dart Training  Assessed by Matt of Total Tree Solutions. This training is in preparation for the CVLLP upcoming veteran tree project.

Last two days were spent with the volunteer gang at Ellis Hill laying trees. Today was like the wettest Glastonbury (with no naked hippies tho!).

Horse chestnut with serious oyster mushrooms

Woody debris and renaturalusation of Churnet Valley at Crumpwood farm.

We have been creating a tree stump sump. This creates rot and mimics similar features in veteran trees thus providing a similar habitat for saproxilic inverts found in nearby veteran trees.