It was a very humid morning on the Ham Lands as 8 GoodGymers gathered for our monthly task with the Friends of Ham Lands.

This morning the job at hand was to clear an area of suckers - which is apparently the name given to small trees shooting up from the roots of a larger tree, which were threatening to take over an patch designated as grassland.

As these were attached to long roots coming from the bigger trees there was no joy to be had in trying to dig them out, so we were armed with secateurs and loppers and set to work cutting them down as close to the ground as possible.

It seemed like a light task to begin with but in the humidity it became tiring! But we made admirable progress very quickly and were soon filling up large sacks, which were then emptied in the woods.

It was clear that rain was brewing but it kindly held off through the task and we were happy to see the results of our efforts.

Next time at the Ham Lands is 12th August - sign up here: https://www.goodgym.org/v3/sessions/helping-the-happy-ham-landers-71962c84-d468-4a75-924a-5537c9058372