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Green Burial – can I be buried in my woodland?
“Green burials” of various sorts are increasingly popular – many people want to escape from what they perceive to be the conveyor-belt experience of some crematoria and the impersonality of cemeteries...
View ArticleButterflies in peril
Generally speaking, the sight of butterflies marks the return of spring sunshine and the warmth associated with long summer days. However, after three wet summers in a row, some of our rarest...
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What do you think of the forestry commission sell-off?
This government proposal has raised enormous public interest and a large amount of misinformation: celebrities seem to be taken as the experts and the forestry commission officers sometimes treated as...
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Making more use of small diameter wood
Making more use of small diameter wood Tim Parry is passionate about putting small diameter timber to good use. He has worked in Gloucestershire woodlands for over 25 years after initially training as...
View ArticleJohn Seymour’s ‘The Lore of the Land’
Have you ever wanted to know how to stop fence posts rotting, how to choose which trees to plant, or how to build a pond so that it holds water? This guidebook, originally written in the early 1980s,...
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Wooden gutters, shingles and downpipes
Making gutters out of wood was traditional in most countries before the widespread use of metal and plastic made these a rarity. But some people still use them to keep buildings looking as they would...
View ArticleWoodlands and forests in Shakespeare’s plays
William Shakespeare grew up in a leafy part of the country, Stratford-upon-Avon, and woodlands and forests were a very important part of many of his plays. Forests were large areas governed by a...
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‘Dorset Cereals’ running “Win Your Own Woodland” competition.
Dorset Cereals produce “Muesli, but not as you know it ….“. Using the “best possible natural ingredients”, they package up their cereals in beautifully decorated cardboard boxes, and they have been...
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Buying a woodland in a SIPP
A while ago I came across an article on the Woodlands.co.uk website about buying a woodland in a SIPP and I thought it too good an opportunity to miss. Having recently successfully completed the...
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Woodcock Wood’s Buzzards
Well, not ours exactly …. but during the spring and summer it’s rare for us not to see and hear the buzzards. In Woodcock Wood they fly above our backdrop of Corsican pine and make forays across the...
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