Going back to your roots

That sounds very horticultural but in fact it was an opportunity to revisit our ongoing vision for the churchyard and explain to a complete stranger what we are trying to achieve, what our goals are and where we are along that pathway to date. The stranger was in fact a journalist from Holland and they had picked up our involvement from the organisation Caring For God's Acre, who liase and offer help to churchyards in the form of suggestions of how to plan and monitor what you propose to undertake, invaluable in getting a project underway, focusing on a week by week seasonal guide so everything flows in a logical fashion. They also advise on looking at the Heritage of the churchyard and Caring for that, this we do cleaning and uncovering graves that have been either partly or wholly hidden for years. It's a sobering fact that if all the churchyards in the UK did something however small towards this we would end up with a conjoined area approaching the size of a small National Park.

This weekend saw the usual clearing up activities and also the planting of Wild Garlic a brilliant plant for early in the year pollinators.