Helping Hands - hedge planting at the Great Yorkshire Showground
The Yorkshire Agricultural Society today (28th February 2008) showed 70 children how to plant a traditional hedge, at the Great
Yorkshire Showground.
The Year 4 pupils from Woodland Junior School, Harrogate, helped to plant 200
small trees to create a 40 metre hedge. The children were assisted by gardeners
from Thorpe Park, who have supplied the trees, Askham Bryan College and the Yorkshire
Agricultural Society.
The school chose to bring younger children to the event so that they would be
able to see the hedge grow when they take part in other Outdoor Classroom events
held at the Showground.
By involving the community in the project, this also supports the Yorkshire Agricultural
Society’s bid to win Yorkshire in Bloom.
(l-r) Victoria Franklin (8) and Jake Lunn (9) from Woodland Junior School
with Nigel Pulling, Chief Executive of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society planting a hazel sapling.