Before the first keynote we were invited to take part in a short forty minute walk to pick up rubbish from the main road. Yes, that’s right, it’s not enough with keeping the venue tidy, the beautiful country side of South Cumbria is included in our cleaning duties as well. Well not quite a duty as this time we were enticed to participate by complementing the Rubbish Walk with a few tidbits of knowledge from Ben, about foraging regionally growing edible wild plants.
Ben tells us about the many applications nettles plants.
The foragers
Artist and Maintenance
We found appropriate road signs along the way
This road was pretty clean but even so the menders managed to collect a fair bit of junk in a short time
Laying our findings in front of the shed