Have you heard of or ever visited Aversley Wood? Off the beaten track, this ancient woodland is positioned near to the village of Sawtry and can be seen from the A1. Aversley Wood is a 61.6 hectare site and its position means it offers amazing...
The other week I journeyed to Felixstowe to visit the marvellous Woodland Working group based at Abbey Grove. The group have been on site for a number of years, carrying out a number of activities in order to keep the wood well maintained. Normally meeting...
On Thursday this week, a motivated team of 16 volunteers from Avison Young braved the morning drizzle to help clear rubbish from our small and very special Saxton’s & Cage’s Wood. This hidden gem in the Kent Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty is just...
In Scotland we are embracing the Trust's Big Climate Fightback, which aims to have 1 million people pledging to plant a tree on 30th November 2019. It would be great if all of our Scotland volunteers would pledge to plant a tree; you can plant...
Dear Ancient Tree Inventory Team, I hope you have had another great month recording trees to the Ancient Tree Inventory and thank you very much for all of your continued efforts on the project. This month saw an extra 609 new records added and 449 trees verified...
We were excited to welcome astronaut Tim Peake and the BBC team last week to Binswood, one of our woods in Hampshire. The team were filming for BBC Autumnwatch! Site Manager Phil Truluck took the crew to the most scenic spots for filming along with being all...
At the start of autumn, the Fingle Woods partnership held an open day of hands-on family-friendly woodland exploration. Nearly 170 people from the local community and further afield braved a typical Dartmoor mixed weather forecast, and ventured to the Wooston Castle area of Fingle Woods...
Hello all A slightly lengthier update – lots of exciting stuff coming up! Tree planting time! First of all… next month is tree planting time! It seems not that long ago that we were all out in the hail planting trees at Walker Fold. We planted over 6000...
On a perfect autumn day in the Nidd Gorge we had the first of our two October sessions. Parking by Burgess Bridge on the Scotton side of the wood we all lugged and barrowed the tools and the materials through the mud and water to...
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award participant Patrick and his dad got to work with routine thinning in Canal Wood using a Canadian cross cut saw. Apart from being a very efficient piece of kit (no fuel required, other than tea and wheaten bread!) the soothing zing...