by Jeff Hughes | Sep 21, 2021 | Products
I had spent the last 25 years looking for a plank. A friend had once cut around a plank of ash the outline of a canoe paddle. It sat against his yard wall for years. I never found out if he ever finished it. I could clearly imagine it, taking a 3-dimensional shape and...
by Ruth Buckley | Jul 3, 2021 | Products, Woodland Management
Grey Squirrel Vol-Au-Vents It has become a tradition that we celebrate our friend Hazel’s birthday with a squirrel dish. Previous years have seen squirrel and wild garlic pasties and simple barbecued squirrel legs but this year I decided to reinvent a...
by Ruth Pybus | Mar 30, 2021 | Products
Wedi Gorffen – Bendigedig!!!
by Ian Swan | Mar 20, 2021 | Products
I was recently very pleased to get some sweet chestnut boards from Bron Haul. The before picture shows the very useful, and very ugly, fitted wardrobe and cupboard. It was too useful to get rid of but was a dominating feature that I disliked, and wondered what to do...
by Ruth Pybus | Mar 13, 2021 | Products
Wild cherry logs – such a treat in the firewood pile. Whack with a splitting maul, and the clean inside shimmers with warm orange, yellow and green swirls. What double joy that the woodland is now producing cherry stems big enough to venture beyond aesthtic log piles...
by Ruth Pybus | Jan 27, 2021 | Products
Fencing – That Old Chestnut! We’ve been falling in love with Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) for a few years now. Once established, it grows strong and straight, responds well to pruning and has started providing a viable seed source from about 20 years old....
