We are fortunate to have two active orchards in the South East - at Hucking in Kent and Langley Vale in Surrey respectively. As it is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, we thought we would update on how things have been for them...
This August saw the return of Plantlife’s Building Resilience in the South-West project to Bovey Valley woods. In partnership with the Woodland Trust and Natural England, this National Lottery Heritage Fund funded project has seen the valleys historic field boundaries surveyed and managed, to increase their...
It's been an exciting time for this new project, which you may remember launched at the end of July. We had some great local and national media coverage and the 'Lost Woods...
If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise! No, not a teddy bears picnic today, but in fact a long, colourful snake, which is currently weaving its way through Bramingham Wood, in Luton. During lockdown children from the local...
With so many events cancelled or postponed at present, it’s great news that the national Heritage Open Days are still going ahead this year; albeit in a very different format. As part of Lincolnshire’s Heritage Open Days activity, the ‘Reconnecting Grantham to its historic landscape project’...
Aileen Louden has volunteered with us for several years now as a Loch Arkaig ospreycam researcher volunteer, carefully viewing and clipping footage of key moments on our nest at Loch Arkaig for us to use on social media and our website. Aileen has written this lovely...
Dear Woodland Trust Scotland volunteers, The pandemic has infiltrated all our lives in so many ways - how we travel, socialise, work, eat and exercise. It's had a big impact on activities and priorities at the Trust too. Despite many of our staff being placed on...
Back in July I emailed all Scotland volunteers to see how lockdown life was for you all, and I received some heart-warming responses, some about life in general, and some about your ongoing volunteering activity. I’d like to share one of those stories with you. Christine Goetz...
Written by John Triggs, Woodland Working Group Leader at Warren Farm We live in a world of hyperbole. On Instagram, every image is ‘breathtaking’; on Facebook every new experience, ‘awesome’. My friends, it seems, never stop seeing the earth from another amazing corner. Some have what...
Observatree is a project that aims to protect the UK’s precious trees from new pests and diseases – either arriving or spreading across the country. Working closely with experts in Forest Research and other government agencies, its team of volunteer Tree Health Surveyors are on...