Woodland for sale
Ever since I visited Ben Law and spent a week learning in some detail how he built his amazing house from trees in his woodland I have dreamt of doing something similar. So much so that when it became …
Smallholding and Woodland (23 posts)
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Natural Regeneration - 18 months on
Here's a quick post to show the progress of the 1/2ish acre that I coppiced in early 2012. Right after the event Jan 2012 9 months later September 2012 This weekend May 2013 - full of life, just not …
Tree planting (practice run)
After our grand tour these past five years, 2013 is family Beale's year of settling, observing and preparing. We do have a long list of jobs but we can't get them all done at once and we know that we …
Slightly overgrown woods
There's a fire pit in there somewhere We've been a tad busy at the Beale household recently. Mainly with the housebuild/planning permission episode (another story), deciding to buy a house instead, …
Woodland ownership, 1 year on
Aerial view of our land (the middle bit), woods to the left It has been just over a year since we purchased with our pension - if you're interested more details below - around 26 acres of marginal …
A larch seesaw
Here's a quick pictorial how-to for making a rudimentary seesaw that we then put into our woodland to help keep the kids entertained. I started with two bits of larch taken from the woodpile, this …
Woodland Shelter finished
We got the woodland shelter finished over the christmas break and tidied up the clearing a bit. It's now ready for us adding some simple storage space (so we can store teabags etc there) and the final …
Alaskan Chainsaw Mill
After a lengthy period of consideration I finally went ahead and invested in an Alaskan chainsaw mill to use to add value (or in Permaculture parlance, obtain the maximum yield) to the small amount of …
Woodland shelter, phase 1
Next: Woodland Shelter finished.
Sad Tree, Happy Tree
Our new-to-us woodland has a large number of standing dead trees or ones with bits dangerously hanging off. Whilst I need to wait until autumn proper to kick off the program of works that is rapidly …