{"id":2657,"date":"2022-11-15T10:19:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T09:19:49","slug":"m-arb-ellous-upcycled-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/2022\/11\/15\/m-arb-ellous-upcycled-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"M-arb-ellous Upcycled Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">We have a strong sustainable and biodiversity ethos within the University and the Grounds Team arboristrists practise this as much a possible by regularly creating habitat piles, building bird and bat boxes and protective fencing for new saplings from fallen branches and timber and leaving tree stumps as sanctuaries for insects and wildlife.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest sustainable project was handcrafting a bench from a Quercus rubra (Red Oak) tree that failed in one of our valleys recently. This upcycled bench has been placed by Reed Pond under a Cupressus macrocarpa tree, which provides all day shade, and where it also has great views of the pond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2659\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298252965_159815706626504_7577683009906531457_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2659 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298252965_159815706626504_7577683009906531457_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298252965_159815706626504_7577683009906531457_n-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298252965_159815706626504_7577683009906531457_n-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298252965_159815706626504_7577683009906531457_n-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298252965_159815706626504_7577683009906531457_n-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upcycled bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2661\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2661\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298148724_125779520166511_1608235551720777634_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298148724_125779520166511_1608235551720777634_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298148724_125779520166511_1608235551720777634_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298148724_125779520166511_1608235551720777634_n-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298148724_125779520166511_1608235551720777634_n-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298148724_125779520166511_1608235551720777634_n-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2661\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View of Reed pond from the upcycled bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2663\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2663\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298298060_1101408894105571_6007879765125967470_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2663 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298298060_1101408894105571_6007879765125967470_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298298060_1101408894105571_6007879765125967470_n.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298298060_1101408894105571_6007879765125967470_n-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298298060_1101408894105571_6007879765125967470_n-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/buddingnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/303\/2022\/11\/298298060_1101408894105571_6007879765125967470_n-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upcycled bench is in all day shade, making it a cooling calming spot to relax<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a strong sustainable and biodiversity ethos within the University and the Grounds Team arboristrists practise this as much a possible by regularly creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,73,75,93,169,195,197,217,219,241],"tags":[305,307,385,431,631,1179,1249,1437,1477,1547,1645],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - 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