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Another couple of blissful days at Heartwood. Harvesting this year's apples, raking the track and gathering the leaves to make biochar were some of yesterday's woodland offerings and today we have been making a mallet and a ''Thor'' hammer, braking up pallets and making kidling, as well as foraging sooo many chestnuts. Some for roasting and some for planting with some acorns in last years coppice area. This has been such an abundant Mast year for chestnuts, acorns and apples,

On Wednesday we got creative and made some conker soap. We smashed the conkers into pieces with hammers and put in a large pot and...

This Tuesday we started the day off with foraging for sweet chestnuts. There are an abundance of them in our woods at the moment and it...

On Wednesday we managed to finish a few projects we'd be working on including these great acorn chopping boards and a new wooden box for...

Happy birthday to Sam and what a stunning autumn day it was to celebrate. We enjoyed sharing birthday cake and playing hide and seek to...

On Wednesday it was one of our student's birthdays. We celebrated with a cake and a couple of games, including 'Splat the Rat.' We had a...

On Monday it was the Autumn Equinox, the time where day and night are equal in length. It is a time of reflection and a season of...

This week we set about processing the acorns we'd gathered on Tuesday. We spent time sorting the damaged acorns from the others and then...

Today it was all about the acorns and fungi. We discovered so many different mushrooms and toadstools growing around the woods after all...

Oh how the weather can change in September! We had hot sun and blue skies yesterday and torrential rain for a good part of the day today....

We've had a busy day in the gorgeous sunshine today and gathering more produce from Fruit Corner. It's so good to see all the colourful...

Wednesday started out incredibly wet and windy. We spent most of the day warm and dry working in the polytunnel. We created a drying rack...

On Tuesday we welcomed the change in weather. The rain was hugely needed and we embraced it with donning our waterproofs and putting up...

This week we made delicious foraged blackberry and apple jam and ate it on bread toasted over the fire. There was lots of work done on...

On Wednesday we made a lot of kindling from the pallet wood. Many of our students enjoy the process of sawing and splitting the recycled...

Today was a warm and sunny day and we harvested more from Fruit Corner. This week it was blueberries, spinach, green beans and carrots,...

On Wednesday work continued on the fence around the pond. We used willow to start weaving through the uprights. It is looking good. A new...

On Tuesday we had a very industrious day! We harvested more courgettes from Fruit corner, cleared one of the raised beds and planted out...

On Wednesday we started two new projects, as well as continuing with the sanding and oiling of the teepee poles. A new bird feeding table...

On Tuesday we were able to harvest quite a number of veg from Fruit Corner, this included rainbow chard, spinach, courgettes and green...