FAMILIES will be exploring the nature close to home at an event in Settle next week.
Organised by Settle Eco-Explorers, adults and children will be getting to know the plants and creatures that inhabit the children's playground outside Booth's Supermarket, after school on Wednesday, March 22.
Judith Allinson, one of the organisers said she would be asking how many people could identify the 12 different species of trees growing in the children's play area. "It amazes me to think that this area was grassland 30 years ago, before the school and Booths were built. And now we can look for lichens and mosses living on the trees.
"The children will be collecting flowers and fruit and leaves that have fallen from these trees, and looking at the lichens, mosses and algae growing on their trunks and branches. Then they will go to St John's Methodist Church. Here there will be hot soup and rolls. Then with the help of local artist Sue Simpson from Ingleton we will make paintings and a wall display of the things we have found."
Last month the children made a display about Fair Trade fortnight, now on display at the back room at St John's Church. After Easter, events will concentrate on walks exploring the footpaths and special nature of the area. More details, find Settle Eco Explorers on Facebook.
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