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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Our nature journal continues into its eighth week. This selection includes may bugs, golden oak trees, honeysuckle flowers and cosy 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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This weekend saw the first of our Drawn to Nature workshops take place on a sunny Saturday in the woods. Drawn to Nature is a completely different kind of day to our usual woodcarving workshops and we were excited to get underway.
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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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In spring, as a tree awakens from its dormant winter state, water and nutrients begin to pump through the sapwood as sap. These nutrients are sent to the buds enabling them to unfurl and thus begins the process of new growth for that year. In this post we'll show you how to tap a birch tree for it's sap and how to make beer with the results.
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