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Welcome to the Logbook, a place for us to share our adventures, outdoor knowledge and campfire recipes, along with insights into the way we make our products and the work we do around our woodland studio. For regular updates be sure to find us on Substack.
A guide to making a simple dandelion syrup - the perfect way to welcome spring!
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Week Ten of our nature journal features fungi, life and death, meadow grass and adventures further afield for the first time in months.
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Week Nine of our Nature Journal featuring encounters with roe deer, reptiles, grasshoppers and bees!
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Week seven of our lockdown nature journal. Summer is in the air, there are dragonflies, damselflies and baby woodpeckers in this round up!
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Week six of our lockdown nature journal. The magic of maple flowers, purple haze and summer snow.
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Week 4 & 5 of our nature journal. We find oak apples and beefly, maple leaves glow in the evening sunlight and the cuckoo is calling once more.
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Week three of our series of nature journal posts. In this one we notice seedlings growing in unlikely places, bees buzzing, tiny flowers and wild cherry blossom in full bloom. Plus an exciting encounter with a grass snake!
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Week two of our photographic nature journal. Featuring crackling pines, ghostly broom and blackthorn blossom amongst others.
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Week one of our photographic nature journal documenting spring under lockdown. This week sees ferns unfurling, new flowers emerging and the sound of wind in the pine trees foretelling the change in weather.
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We have just wrapped up a busy week here in the woods selectively thinning a number of Scots pines (Pines sylvestris) as part of our long term management plan. Woodland management is a complicated business, one which I have conflicting views on. In truth I loathe the idea of ‘managing’ any part of nature in any way. Management sounds sterile and dull, yet nature is chaotic, messy and pulsing with living energy. I am an advocate of allowing natural processes to take place and learning from nature by watching events unfold.
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This autumn has been a wet, windy and fairly dull affair here in the woods so far; a far cry from the two previous years which delivered warm sunny days and cold nights resulting in riotous displays of autumn colour. There has been one positive from all the wet weather however, our gaze has been diverted from the golden leaves above to the earth beneath our feet and an explosion of fungi working their mycelial magic amongst the leaf litter.
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For as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to build my own house or a cabin in the woods somewhere, and having the ability to make things with my hands and a shed full of tools accumulated over the years and a good reason, it seemed like now was the right time to give it a try. When I had visions of building a cabin, I imagined it would be built from round timber and I would build the whole thing with hand tools; axes and gouges, Dick Proenekke style.
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Around this time every year, we head into the woods to cook up an outdoor feast to celebrate midwinter, the forthcoming festive season and to toast the year past. This year we decided to focus on creating a liquid accompaniment to our feasting, something warming that celebrated the season, something that tasted like Christmas in drinkable form.
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Nearly all our wooden products start their life as offcuts from the forestry work we undertake around the woodland we manage and call our home. Our Forester Folding Camp Stools are no exception; each one is hand made from durable, resilient European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) felled by us as part of our ongoing woodland management plan.
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Sometimes multiple events or situations culminate at just the right time to generate a greater impact than each individual moment could of by itself. One of those moments, which lead to the start of Miscellaneous Adventures is the tale of Dick Proenneke.
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It's become an annual tradition for us in recent years to celebrate the festive season by heading into the woods and cooking up a Christmas feast over the campfire. Read on for all the details our latest recipe maybe give it a go this holiday season.
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All around us here in the woods, autumn is making its presence felt; vivid green leaves are slowly yellowing, robins are singing their melancholy song, acorns are raining down from above and flowers have transformed into colourful, shiny alluring fruits.
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Every spring, the woodland floor around our little barn explodes in a riotous display of purple as bluebell flowers emerge from their slumbering bulbs, covering nearly every inch of earth. Although we’ve witnessed this spectacle many times it never fails to astound. This year we decided to mark the occasion by camping out in the woods during peak bluebell season...
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Yesterday was the first truly warm day of spring so far; In the evening I took a short walk around the woods, chasing the fading orange light and taking mental notes on the activity of the fallow deer, when I heard a crackling, popping sound coming from the canopy. I looked up and around, expecting to see a grey squirrel munching on the pine cones but none could be found. No birds either. What could it be?
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