News & Events
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Planting a New Hedge
For many woodland owners especially those with ancient woodlands, our hedges are our boundaries. They may have been planted 100’s of years ago, some still managed as hedges, having been layed, pollarded or coppiced many times, others are unrecognisable as a hedge, more a line of full grown trees which is what all hedges aspire…
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Woodfairs 2015
Together with Woodlands.co.uk, the SWOG team will be attending Woodfest Wales, Treefest and Bentley. South Downs Show and Hampshire Woodfair 15–16 August 2015 Queen Elizabeth Country Park, Hampshire www.southdownsshow.co.uk Treefest at Westonbirt Arboretum 29–31 August 2015 Tetbury, Gloucestershire www.forestry.gov.uk Stock Gaylard Oak Fair 29–30 August 2015 Sturminster Newton, Dorset www.stockgaylard.com National Forest Woodfair 31 August 2015 Beacon…
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Witherslack Forestry & Woodfuel Fair Saturday 28 February
Witherslack Forestry & Woodfuel Fair – Saturday 28 February Come and join us at Halecat House, Witherslack on Saturday 28th February, 10:00 – 16:00 for our latest Forestry and Woodfuel Fair. There will be plenty going on in the woodlands of the estate throughout the day including: · Various felling and extraction demonstrations · Community…
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Meeting in Yorkshire 28 Feb 2015
There are still a few places available for the SWOG meeting in Bill and Shan Rigby’s wood in North Yorkshire, 28 February 2015, 10am-1pm . Relative newcomers to the world of woodland ownership, Bill and Shan own a 5-acre wood just 20 miles from York. They’re keen to chat to fellow SWOG members and to…
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Seeing Butterflies – Book review by Heather Martin
When I first opened ‘Seeing Butterflies’ I was so enthralled by the superb photographs of butterflies and moths that I kept turning the pages treating the volume initially as a picture book, a visual experience further enhanced by the entire contents being printed on yellow, orange and green paper as opposed to the more traditional…
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European Coppice Conference 2014
Kentish woodlands and the traditional way they are managed were the focus of an international conference hosted by the University of Greenwich. Visitors from across Europe, as well as from South Africa and Turkey took part in a three-day conference in the heartland of the British coppice industry to learn new techniques, share experiences and…