Year: 2018
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RFS Winter Courses
Back by popular demand! The Royal Forestry Society has unveiled its 2019 training courses, with the tricky topic of Winter Tree ID kicking off the season on 22 February.
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Managing pests and diseases – a chance to feed your views into policy
Forest Research are working to provide Defra with evidence from different kinds of woodland owners and managers, including owners of small woodlands, about how they are/are not dealing with recent outbreaks of tree pests and diseases, such as ash dieback, and how they might be planning to deal with the threat of potential future outbreaks.…
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Smoked leaf prints
Thanks to Northamptonshire Archives for permission to reproduce this 1950s craft project. These simple leaf prints look really striking and we’ve transposed the hand-written instructions from 1956. It involves fire and fat, so proceed at your own risk.
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Jousting with the Tree Champion
One of the best things about the APF Show is that if you hang around long enough, you will bump into just about every woody person you want to see. From Bob the Bodger, to Sir William Worsley, APF 2018 did not disappoint.
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Growing the National Forest
In the late 1980s a group of visionaries came together with the idea of revitalising a large swathe of the Midlands that had been decimated by heavy industries. Daniel Small, Woodland Management Officer at the National Forest, looks back at how a forest was created.
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Butterflies at Flatropers
The White Admirals were out in force in the glorious July weather, when Alice Parfitt, Reserves Manager of the Sussex Wildlife Trust guided a group of SWOG members round Flatropers Wood Nature Reserve. She described the work that Sussex Wildlife has carried out to encourage butterflies and birds in the woodland. Flatropers is managed by…
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Bent to their will
Sue and Andy Malleson needed a bit more seating in their wood, so took themselves off on a bentwood chair-making courses at Hanwell Wine Estate with John Hollins.
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Butterflies Flutterby
Many thanks are owed to Martin and Marilyn Garwood of Crow Wood, part of the Old Park Wood in Goudhurst. They hosted a wonderful afternoon of butterfly ID and general ‘woodie’ type chat in their wood in July.
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Gimme Shelter – Building a Simple Woodland Shelter
Once you’ve spent any amount of time in the woods, you’ll probably discover that you need some kind of protection from the elements. Or as Mick Jagger once sang “If I don’t get some shelter …Oh yeah, I’m gonna fade away” .