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Anniversary Celebrations

BA Summer Meeting Rothbury

Birch Craft Weekend

Caroline and Helene's Visit

Celtic Knot Baskets - Hepple Self Help Group

Chairman's Report Northumbria Basketry Group 10th Anniversary Celebration Exhibitions

Emily Davison Sculpture

Giant Bee Skeps

Harbottle Show

Introduction to Round Baskets - Etal

Joe Hogan Workshop

Learning Revolution

Making a Willow Lobster Pot, November 2010

Making a Willow Sphere - March 2015

Making Rush Baskets

Somerset Visit, November 2010

Supporting the RNLI

Supporting the RNLI 26th October 2010

Supporting Washington Wetlands Centre - Press Release

The Whitton Willow Plot Story

The Whittondean Willow Plot Story

Visit to Sweden September 2010

Visit to Sweden September 2011

Weaving Our History

Weekend Basket Course 25/26 September 2010

Willow Coal Miner Sculpture

Willow Nativity, St Cuthberts, Bedlington - Christmas 2010

Willow Play Den Images

Workshops - 2010

The Whitton Willow Plot Story

In 2009 the group rented a plot just to the south of Rothbury at Whitton. In 2010 site preparation work was held up due to the severe weather and it was not until early March that ground preparation began. Many group members and friends were involved. Clearing the site was difficult as the plot had not been cultivated for at least a decade.
Following clearance a Mypex woven mulch was laid and pegged down. Willow rods were then cut into 25cm lengths and planted through the weed control mulch.
Over 7,000 cuttings from more than 20 varieties of willow were planted by the end of March.
In March 2011 the plot was extended by approximately 9 metres to the south of the existing plot. A further 3,000 cuttings of Black Maul were planted. The output from the extension is to be processed for buff using a boiling tank and stripping machine.
It is intended to take an image of the site at roughly monthly intervals to show progress at the plot.

Listen to a song written about the Whitton Willow Plot workers by John Homer.

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