Vandals have wreaked a ‘trail of mess and destruction’ at Oldham’s new ‘urban farm’ to the dismay of volunteers and chiefs.
The team at Northern Roots, which aims to be the UK’s largest farm and eco park, said on Monday that part of the site at Snipe Clough had been ‘seriously vandalised’. Damage included young plants and inactive beehives being ‘destroyed’, holes cut through the new polytunnel and other breakages.
The team said their work was being funded by charitable grants and donations, which would now have to be redirected – along with volunteers’ time – into repairing the damage.
