The Walks: Current Projects

A variety of efforts are going forward in the Park. Currently the Friends are getting stuck into the South Ditch, while the Transition Kings Lynn group are starting springtime work on the Transition Garden.
As the new campaigning season opens, Commandante Councillor John Loveless is leading a new wave of guerrilla activities.

The South Ditch runs parallel to the Seven Sisters Walk, which follows the original line of the town wall. The ditch is the remains of the defensive fosse. It accumulates dead leaves, windblown litter and is a locally important breeding site for shopping trolleys. It has also attracted some fly tipping from the Football Club's area on the east bank.
The Friends are planning to clear the rubbish and elder trees and plant alder trees (yup, just one letter different!) on the bank.

Transition Kings Lynn (learn more at transitionkingslynn.wordpress.com) started a vegetable garden in the Park early last summer and it was extremely successful: they added fruit trees at the end of the season and are planning to start their 2010 gardening season on Feb 28th, round about 10 thirty-ish.

TKL are a group concerned with the transition to a post-oil society: They are part of a wider grouping of Transition Towns which started as a movement on the South Coast of Ireland, but is now global. No special skills are required for anyone who fancies helping garden: just enthusiam!

John Loveless is looking for volunteers to help plant bluebell and snowdop bulbs "in the green" (not sure if this refers to the bulbs or the volunteers, John?). Earlier guerrilla planted snowdrops are currently to be admired in flower in the area around the Red Mount (see photo, right).

John Loveless can be contacted via the Borough council web pages: west-norfolk.gov.uk. Don't be misled by the photo. He's really much better looking.