Making the living willow structure. Part of the day's activities included making a willow tunnel as a shaded place space for the pupils at Whitley park. Here is Steve Pickup from the Willowbank helped by a volunteer from Thames water makign the first start, the woven plastic fabric will form the base of the tunnel and will mulch out and kill the grass, which in turn will encourage the willow to grow. When the structure is completed it will be edged in and covered over with woodchip