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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.
Photos and thoughts from a week of woodland management work with Wild Sussex in a beautiful small woodland in Surrey.
Read MoreBack at the end of July, Emma spent an inspiring week studying ethnobotany with the Woodcraft School in West Sussex.
Read MoreWeek Ten of our nature journal features fungi, life and death, meadow grass and adventures further afield for the first time in months.
Read MoreWeek Nine of our Nature Journal featuring encounters with roe deer, reptiles, grasshoppers and bees!
Read MoreOur nature journal continues into its eighth week. This selection includes may bugs, golden oak trees, honeysuckle flowers and cosy bees.
Read MoreWeek seven of our lockdown nature journal. Summer is in the air, there are dragonflies, damselflies and baby woodpeckers in this round up!
Read MoreWeek six of our lockdown nature journal. The magic of maple flowers, purple haze and summer snow.
Read MoreWeek 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.
Read MoreWeek 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!
Read MoreWeek two of our photographic nature journal. Featuring crackling pines, ghostly broom and blackthorn blossom amongst others.
Read MoreWeek 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.
Read MoreWe 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.
Read MoreOn Saturday 25th January we headed into the woods for our first workshop of the decade. After postponing our autumn woodcarving workshop twice due to stormy weather, we were really looking forward to finally getting this one underway.
Read MoreThis 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.
Read MoreYesterday 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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