From Cllr Stan Jones.

On Thursday July 11th, from 10am to 1pm, the Parish Council are sponsoring a Community Ragwort Pulling event at Little Burnham Meadow, next to the allotments above Hughenden Valley Village Hall.  The event will be led by the Chiltern Rangers and their Green Thursdays volunteer group. There will be other conservation tasks available around the meadow and spinney for those who don’t fancy pulling ragwort all day. If you’d like to join us, please bring good rubber gloves, as the ragwort is strongly alkaline. If you have your own specialised ragwort fork, please bring it along.

The objective is to make the grass that is cut later in the summer usable for livestock. This, in turn, means we can remove the cuttings, which promotes greater diversity of wildflowers and insects in the meadow.

This is part of our broader plan to promote greater sustainability and biodiversity on the land the Parish Council owns or manages. Please join us whether for an hour or the full session. Please meet John Moorby in the Village Hall Car Park at 10am and he will lead you to the Meadow. We’ve had great turnouts at recent events at Cockpit Hole, in Great Kingshill, and we’d love to see members of the local community join us on July 11th. This will make an immediate positive difference to one of our most ecologically valuable locations.