Months of good weather has meant a lot of being outside and not very much sitting inside at the computer. So often, while out and about or working in the woods, I noticed things worth writing about, but somehow didn’t have the inclination nor discipline to open up the computer for anything other than the [...]
Last summer I ran an informal workshop on the farm on the subject of tending young woodlands. About twenty people turned up on the Saturday morning. The deal was that in the morning I’d show people through the woods and offer what I have learned about tending the woods. After lunch we would do some [...]
Late August is a good time to visit the forests and do some marking before the leaves fall in another couple of months. Many foresters I’ve met with Pro Silva Europe don’t need the trees to be in leaf to know when one crown is crowding out another. For the less experienced of us though, [...]
There is a strip of woodland between the lane down to the Cabin Woods and the home field, where the cattle are at the moment. We planted it about 7 years ago for shelter and shade and to link the woods behind the house with the main woodland areas that we planted about ten years [...]
This evening I walked down to the Cabin woods to stack a bit more of the firewood cut by Niall last week. It was such a cold evening, but bright, and I took a look around the little forest where the trees had been thinned. I like to leave the branches from the harvested trees [...]
Yesterday evening I wandered down to the Cabin Woods with my red marking tape and worked my way through the trees marking those that I thought should be felled. I made a mental note at the end of last summer that some thinning needed to happen down there before this spring. The Cabin Woods is [...]
Recent Comments