Well, to be more precise our waste water treatment process, commonly known as a reedbed, loved the wet summer. Back in April it was just a field, a few months later we've got a wetland system that treats all our waste water. Filtering it down through a series of ponds full of native plants and thousands of willows around the edge. The willows have grown 6ft in as many months. You can almost sit and watch them grow. The amount of wildlife around the ponds is fantastic. Standing water is a rare habitat on Mendip, water just seeps through the limestone geology normally, leaving great caves but few ponds. So the reedbed is cleaning our water and providing an incredible home for wildlife.
We had the Mendip Hills AONB Service Sustainable Development Fund panel up today for a guided tour of the reedbed and wood burning boiler, which they helped to fund. They also got to have a bowl of home made soup in the new barn that was opened a month or so ago. More about the the semi-circular barns next week though.
The Mendip Mind
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Thanx to sol and emily for funky party jon da chef :) :)
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