Month: May 2011

  • Hedgerows for Dormice Project

    News and feedback from the  end of the  Hedgerows for Dormice project which was run by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species can be downloaded from the link below.  This very worthwhild project funded by Natural England has helped link hedgrow ‘corridors and increased the natural habitat of the Dormouse. Hedgerows for Dormice Newsletter

  • SWOG Meet – Alvecote Wood

    Last weekend SWOG members were kindly  invited to Sarah and Stephen’s beautiful oak pasture woodland, Alvecote Wood, near Tamworth in Stafforshire.

  • Coppice Week – Ashdown forest

    The Sussex & Surrey Coppice Group is once again organising a ‘Coppice Week’ on Ashdown Forest to run between 17th and 22nd May.

  • Native Hands – workshops

    There are a few places still available on ‘Native Hands’  upcoming courses, which will  be held in beautiful, peaceful (and shady) private woodland near Lewes.

  • Book review – Coppicing & Coppice Crafts

    Coppicing and Coppice Crafts: A Comprehensive Guide Rebecca Oaks & Edward Mills The Crowood Press First published 2011, new edition 2023 ISBN 9780719842511 The new book, Coppicing and Coppice Crafts, A comprehensive Guide, by Rebecca Oaks and Edward Mills, is just that.  I found it covers a wide range of subject matter in an easy…

  • May Newsletter

    Another bumper  edition of the SWOG newletter.