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Join us for hands-on outdoor activities on Saturday mornings at Newton Farm Ecology Park, meeting at the Rayners Lane Car Park. It’s a chance to spend time outside, connect with nature, and pick up new conservation skills along the way. Plus, you’ll be making a real difference to the local environment.

Newton Farm Ecology Park is a small area of wood and grassland lying between Alexandra Avenue and Rayner’s Lane in the south of the borough. Although small, it contains a wide variety of habitats including wet and dry grassy meadows, woodland, streams and a pond. The wooded areas contain many varieties of apples as well as ash, birch, cherry, dogwood, field maple, hawthorn, hornbeam, oak, black and white poplars and rowan.

Within the wood is a small area originally planted as a healing garden with plants that in earlier times were believed to have healing properties. The healing garden was recently restored with a grant from Greggs the bakers.