It’s up!
Come and see our new exhibition at Moira Furnace! We installed it today in the Bridge Loft- a great opportunity for us to represent the project’s journey and what we discovered about this landscape’s… Continue reading
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Moira Replan
On Monday we took a trip to meet Graham Knight at Moira Replan to have a look at the archive of local photos and maps that’s held there. We took a look at… Continue reading
Moira Furnace, Ashby Canal & the South Derbyshire Mining Preservation Society
Last Saturday was a busy day! We started with a tour of the furnace with Steve Scotney, sharing the mysteries and stories of the building. We learnt that Moira village didn’t exist before Earl… Continue reading
A few more pics from our Nature Walk…
We took cameras, binoculars, a samples box to collect things and added to Ben’s wildlife survey of the area. 5 species we found hadn’t been spotted in the area that year. And then we… Continue reading
History Walk
On Monday evening we gathered together in the sunshine at Moira Youth Hostel to meet local historian Dot Morson. She took us on a great walk through the landscape around Conkers and up… Continue reading
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Despite the grey clouds we had a great day chatting to people at Moira Canal Festival last Saturday. We used maps and leaf-printed bunting to engage people in conversations about the local landscape,… Continue reading
First blog post
This is the excerpt for your very first post.
Welcome to our Blog!
Youth Landscapers is a group of local young people from Donisthorpe and Moira researching and mapping The Heart of the National Forest with the Black to Green project. Over the summer we’ll be… Continue reading