South Petherton Tree Trails Guide Book and Embroidery Book Launch – Saturday 24th October 10am-12 Noon
We are very excited to invite you to the launch of the long awaited South Petherton Parish Tree Trails Guidebook in the Library on October
24th 10am-12 noon. This will be accompanied a beautiful handstitched fabric book in celebration of trees, designed and made by The Parish Stitchers. There will also be a small exhibition containing information on trees in the parish with Tree Preservation Orders, and some photos of the Lost Trees of South Petherton courtesy of Chris Male of Bygone South Petherton. South Petherton Photography Group have kindly contributed some beautiful pictures of trees and there will also be creative contributions from students at the Infant and Junior Schools.
Members of South Petherton Tree and Wildlife Group (TWiG) have been working on the Tree Trails Guidebook book for over a year and have walked the parish footpaths looking for the notable trees in need of recognition and celebration. This book contains 6 walks created as a result of their search and takes walkers past many beautiful and inspiring parish trees .
The Parish Stitchers have also been working for the past year on their new piece of embroidery work to celebrate trees, and they are very proud to present their work to the parish in praise of the precious and beautiful trees around us.
During the launch morning there will be guided walks around the village to highlight some of the trees featured in the book.
Please bring along family and friends to celebrate our wonderful parish trees and feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested.
TWiG and The Parish Stitchers would like to thank Mark Freeman and the Library team for their support in setting up the exhibition.
The Tree Trails Guide Books will be available to buy on the day.
Many thanks and see you there!
South Petherton Tree and Wildlife Group (TWiG) and The Parish Stitchers
Tickets are also available online or from the library for a TALK on Tuesday 27 October 7.30pm by Aidan Meighan on his book – The Folklore of Trees (Refreshments 7pm in the Library)
Somerset’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy Report
TWiG – South Petherton Tree and Wildlife Group
The parish of South Petherton benefits from having a wonderful group of volunteers who want to make the parish a better environment for the benefit of wildlife and people. Their mission is to increase biodiversity within the village, help to reduce the effects of climate change and get the community involved in their projects.
Their first project was tree planting at the junior school playing field and future projects include further tree planting and the re-wilding of some verges for the benefit of pollinators and passers-by.
Further tree planting has taken place since then.
If you’d like to get involved or find out more about TWiG contact them via this email address twigsouthpetherton@gmail.com or on their Website https://twigsouthpetherton.org.uk/ and Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/people/TWiG/100082876270716/?ref=py_c
2 members of TWiG Kath Jones and Trish Harper are officially Environment Champions for South Petherton.
Whitfield Meadow
The Parish Council own the Whitfield meadow, an area near the allotments designated as a wild meadow. This is for everyone to enjoy.
It is a permanent native perennial grass and flower meadowland which will take several years to establish. After the correct mowing regime it will start to thicken up as the flowers and grasses get established. It is not to be confused with an annual flower meadow which will produce a beautiful show for the first year but is not permanent meadow grass land so will need resowing every couple of years.
This permanent meadow flower grassland will provide shelter and food for a wide variety of wildlife including insects, bees and birds.
South Somerset Community Biodiversity Toolkit
Community Biodiversity Toolkit_Overarching Guidance