Van Stadens

We had to be at the Reserve early today because the Wednesday Walkers had told us they wanted to give us a donation as a thank you for laying out trails for them and what a generous donation it was. They will probably make even more use of the Reserve now that other places such […]

For various reasons most of the usual members could not make it today so we had a pathetic turnout  I had a faint hope some of the recent new Facebook friends would show up but no such luck. One advantage of that was though that no lengthy explanations were required and like a well oiled

Whilst we could get by in the nursery using municipal water for the time being the community veggie garden is entirely dependant on our pipe so we decided to tackle that first. It turned out to be quite a complicated affair as our next door neighbour, Thomas, is not keen to have our pipe across

One can dwell on all the damage that the fire has done, all the signs gone, the bird hide gone, our water supply gone, picnic tables gone, some of the planting burnt etc. but that is pretty self-defeating so we try to look for the positives and the opportunities this new situation brings. For the

I’m catching up with this blog because it has been quite hectic after the fire which was the most extensive fire in the reserve for years. It apparently started in Longmore forest and, due to very strong westerly winds, made its way to the Van Stadens gorge and burnt large areas around Thornhill, Lady Slipper

The monthly meeting for a change was not about work but about enjoying ourselves and we were curious how the forest coped with the drought. It was remarkable how dry and sparse the vegetation on the forest floor had become and how many leaves the trees had shed. A positive aspect of this was that