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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… Read More »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… Read More »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.… Read More »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… Read More »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]… Read More »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… Read More »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… Read More »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… Read More »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… Read More »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.… Read More »Tree planting 2017 is finished!