I use a rocket stove for cooking and hot water, faster and more efficient than an open fire and can be used in rain and wind. It burns sticks (eg 50mm diameter) not logs. Here’s… Easy-build rocket Stove instructions
Do I need planning permission? This is a recurring question that I see from people considering planting new woodland. I’m not a qualified expert to offer advice on this. I didn’t seek any kind of… Permissions to create a new woodland?
Over the last couple of years rewilding has become a popular topic of conversation, led perhaps by Isabella Tree or Rewilding Britain or Extinction Rebellion. I don’t count myself as expert in rewilding – it’s… Thoughts on Rewilding
Occasionally people contact me when they want to plant a woodland and they’re looking to meet others to join them. It could be a great way to fulfil your woodland dream as part of a… Looking for Like-minded people to plant a woodland?
I get two or three emails each week from people who found this blog and have questions to ask. Somebody just asked me “what [I] would do differently” . Here’s my top answers: Deer GuardsI’d… Learning from my mistakes
This article contains some useful but hard-to-find information – although a lot of it is only relevant to Northern Ireland. ps://www.conservationhandbooks.com/select-trees-new-native-woodland/ I had a lot of help from The Woodland Trust on choosing the overall… How to select trees for new native woodland
I had lunch with some lovely people from Friends Of The Earth today because they were interested in planting woodlands and how more people could do it. We talked about a lot of things that… In conversation
Everything has grown, again. The trees planted last year seem to have done fine. I’ve added a few this year, mostly hedging. Some of the faster growing 2015 trees, such as alder and silver birch,… Update March 2019
Everything grew well in 2017 but it still feels more like a field of plastic tubes than a woodland! Sadly a few more trees adjacent to the footpath at Butcombe have been vandalised, but they… Update Spring 2018
Last Sunday afternoon we planted the final tree at Upton Cheyney. This is the end of large scale tree planting, both fields are now full. Over three winters we’ve planted just under 11000 native trees… Tree planting 2017 is finished!