6th Jan 2025 Facebook From last year’s loss comes this year’s hope...a victim of ash dieback had to be felled – and the chainsaw then magically transforms the stump into a wildlife riverside scene for inspiration and joy for people. But more to come! Not just more... but better! Our kind neighbours dropped the wood over the fence by our compost heap – for firewood (once well dried out*– very important!). Then, between plates of wood and sawdust (Photo 2) lay the real treasure!! The timescale was summer until mid-November - life had arrived (Photos 3,4). Golden sawdust (see bottom of photo 1) had transformed to brown earth. Wondrous creatures were transforming death and destruction into plant heaven. Helped and speeded up by chainsaw-created sawdust, worms of all sizes (photo 2) were consuming, burrowing, digesting all the dead organic stuff from powdery wood, mixing, oxygenating and leaving wormcast granules of airy, fresh earth (vermicompost) improving soil chemicals and ph...