This wonderful day with Colin Carpenter at the Community Tree Trust offers the opportunity to learn how to collect and plant a variety of native British tree seeds to grow your tree saplings for future planting projects.

Update 15/10/2010 There is a short video explaining the earth burn available on the High Weald AONB website. The Sussex and Surrey Coppice Group held a ‘Coppice Week’ on Ashdown Forest last month.  Coppice group members, the public and other interested parties enjoyed workshops held by some of the leading craftsmen in the country.

Forest Research’s newsletter FR News is now available, but this time it comes with a big difference. As well as the usual roundup of research highlights, they are now delivering it alongside their more in-depth newsletters on social and economic research, ecology and pathology.

Apologies first of all for the photograph! I’m sure these quality garments will prove indispensable for working in the woods and coming to those winter meets now that the weather has turned cooler.

The Bentley Woodfair went ahead on the weekend of 17th, 18th and 19th of September another dry event, though not quite as warm and sunny as it was last year.  SWOG was there as evidenced by the random pictures, (thanks Greyman, yours were the ones that came out well!).