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It’s Your Neighbourhood

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) supports a grassroots community gardening scheme called It’s Your Neighbourhood (IYN).  The idea is help local people to “clean up and green up their immediate local environment to make a lasting improvement- whether that’s the … Continue reading →

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Attention Turns to Wood

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Jennifer Inskip Kirkby

Around 1861, when the American Civil War was raging,  Prince Albert was breathing his last, and Mrs Beeton was publishing her cookery book, someone in Guiseley, planted, these magnificent sycamore trees.  It is said that to “plant a tree is … Continue reading →

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