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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · 4d

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Save These Fields 2025 - Benjamin Gibbs (with subtitles)

YouTube video by Friends of Ryebank Fields

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · 4d

ITS HERE! 🎬🍿

This ‘heartwarming and urgent’ documentary about the fight to #SaveRyebankFields is now available to watch in the comfort of your own home 🛋️ 🪺
Use the QR code, or link in comments.

Filmed ahead of the
#PlanningAndInfrastructureBill it foreshadows many of the issues raised by it 💚

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Mini Masters Art Club @minimastersart.bsky.social · Jul 10

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jul 9

@paulpowlesland.bsky.social @cerysmatthews.bsky.social a plug would be lovely for this fundraiser event to #SaveRyebankFields ☺️ ..just about 20 mins from @bbc6music.bsky.social studios in Salford if any of your colleagues fancy coming along Cerys 🤗

Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jul 1

Paul Wood’s 📖 ‘Tree Hunting’ Book Launch (featuring our own #Aspen Grove) and screening of Ben Gibbs’ documentary 🎬 ’Save These Fields’ 🌳 about us - at Dulcimer, Chorlton on 20th July - all proceeds to RFCGs Alternative Plan Application for Ryebank Fields www.ticketsource.co.uk/save-ryebank...

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jul 1

Paul Wood’s 📖 ‘Tree Hunting’ Book Launch (featuring our own #Aspen Grove) and screening of Ben Gibbs’ documentary 🎬 ’Save These Fields’ 🌳 about us - at Dulcimer, Chorlton on 20th July - all proceeds to RFCGs Alternative Plan Application for Ryebank Fields www.ticketsource.co.uk/save-ryebank...

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jun 1

@cerysmatthews.bsky.social great to hear you featuring Paul Wood’s book on #6music 😊 He came to #RyebankFields Manchester looking for our rare #ManchesterPoplar and wrote about our rare #AspenGrove both are under threat of development by #ManMetUni www.saveryebankfields.co.uk/features/asp...

Ryebank Fields Aspen Grove

The Aspen Grove at Ryebank Fields Article by Paul Wood, Author of Great British and Irish Trees The Ecology of Aspen Woodlands – free download A primer by Robin Grayson (FGS) and Mandukhai Grayson Exc...

www.saveryebankfields.co.uk

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · May 13

Thank you 🤩

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · May 13

Ah so sorry we didn’t see you there! a magic evening and some moving words by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social about access, reciprocity, and community that really resonated for our campaign 💚 #wearenature

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · May 13

So lovely to meet you and connect @salthepoet.bsky.social 🤗

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · May 4

*Sound On* Rewarded for the 3am alarm by the birdsong in the woods and then this beautiful sunrise on #InternationalDawnChorusDay
Let’s make sure it’s not their last May #SaveRyebankFields

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Apr 4

If you liked this - 24 hours to object to the felling of many of these oaks and tearing up grassland and scrub habitats home to hedgehogs, wood mice tawny owl and more! www.saveryebankfields.co.uk/object-now/

Object Now! Deadline 5th April - SAVE RYEBANK FIELDS

There are two planning applications relating to this proposal. The main one is to Manchester 142223/FO/2025 (deadline 5th April) and there’s a second to Trafford 115688/FUL/25 (deadline 26th March, at...

www.saveryebankfields.co.uk

Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Mar 24

Yes - this is not about loss of ‘a view’ or ‘overcrowding’. It’s about the loss of a place that’s so important to 100s of not 1000s who spend time here regularly, some daily. For many it’s our church, our community centre, our playground, our youth club, our garden. For some, a home 🦋🐝🐸🦊🐞🦔

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Mar 20

100 years ago, this rewilded urban greenfield space was claypits with only an ancient ditch, a row of magnificent Black Poplars, and a hedgerow. Please join our campaign and object to #MMU plans to build on this special beloved place #RewildingTogether www.saveryebankfields.co.uk/object-now/

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 6

We wondered if it was that one! That phrase inspired by our own Ryebank Song maybe..and the wording on our profile pic here. It’s what it’s all about for some of us 🪺 #HomesForEveryone

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 5

Ooh which is yours @minimastersart.bsky.social? They’re all beautiful 🥹 and each square full of love and our histories and connection with the land. #Reciprocity @righttoroam.bsky.social we think you’ll understand..

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 2

The case for Heathrow expansion was commissioned by the airport themselves (ie not independent) and based on methodology the Government itself has discredited!

Alex Chapman @alchap.bsky.social · Feb 2

I spoke to the Observer about the shoddy economics sitting behind Reeves' Heathrow announcement... and the article only covers the half of it... thread
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reeves’s Heathrow third runway report was commissioned by London airport

The chancellor is under fire after a study cited as evidence for expanding the terminal to boost the UK’s economic growth was ordered by Heathrow itself

www.theguardian.com

Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 2

Are there student rate tix do you know?

Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 2

Our own #Imbolc ceremony at Ryebank Fields - hoping Brighid will spread her cloak and protect our #Aspen and the surrounding grasslands and woodlands from the #ManMetUni bulldozers 🤍

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 2

Ooh you do look alike, that’s a lovely find after all this time 🤍

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Feb 2

Beautiful #Imbolc celebration in our #Aspen Grove this evening ✨ poetry, readings and music from 🇯🇵 to 🇮🇪
The #community and #culture of Ryebank Fields are a part of why we can and do fight so hard to save them from the bulldozers. We have a relationship with this land 🤍#WildService #RightToRoam

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jan 24

In South Manchester, we have a nature shortage - not a housing land shortage
#Housing #brownfieldfirst #saveryebankfields #urbannature

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jan 14

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jan 14

❤️‍🔥 Cockles well and truly warmed 🤗 a jolly #ryebankfields 🍎 #wassail 🍻 Thanks to everyone who was there for being part of it 🙏
"For in this city of stone, well the green is always near...and I hope to see you back again, when we do this again next year!"
Let’s make sure of it
#saveryebankfields ✊🏼

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Save Ryebank Fields @ryebankfields.bsky.social · Jan 11

🍒🍏🥁WASSAIL!! 🪕🍎🍻
Today Saturday 11th *at 4pm* - our annual Orchard Wassail 🙌🏻

Please join us, all welcome. Bring a noisemaker, or just your voice, and bring a mug and donation to exchange for some warm mulled Apple Juice or Cider 🍺

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