College Lake Cornfield Flower Nursery Volunteer

Join a dedicated team of volunteers every Tuesday and Friday morning at College Lake Nature Reserve to help maintain one of the UK’s most important nurseries for rare arable plants.

No experience necessary, but enthusiasm and patience are important. If you have gardening, or horticultural knowledge that is always useful, but a reasonable level of fitness and enthusiasm for being outdoors is as important.

Full details in the role description.

Position details

Commitment:

Tuesday, Friday

Frequency:

Weekly

The nursery has raised benches with plant boxes to make the gardening easier, and there is a garden shed and a greenhouse to assist with growing plants and storing seed.

The group is most active in the spring and summer months, collecting seeds from the plants which have flowered that year, and watering the nursery and meadows during dry spells. In November and December, they clean and sort the seeds ready for sowing.

Each year, the arable weeds are planted alongside heritage wheat in a cornfield at College Lake and in a one-hectare arable weed meadow at the top end of the reserve.