Children from Bladon Primary enjoyed walking through Blenheim’s forest trail, led by the Education Team of Blenheim Palace. They saw planted and managed forest, and ancient woodland. They had a colour chart and tried to find every colour on there to show them that the woods weren’t just brown and green. After the Forest Trail…
22nd September to 21st October 2009 Mhairi MacGillivray-Edwards reports on the school visits I have now waved goodbye to the last school group to visit the One Oak from Stonesfield Primary School, packed away the last measuring tape and bug pot and taken a last look around the oak tree until January, when the big…
We have launched a new suite of websites aiming to create a stronger cohesion between our three main project websites, and with our main website.
The children of Bladon Primary read that the oak tree would give us 5 cubic metres of wood, but they didn’t know what a cubic metre was. So they made one in their hall. All 19 of them could stand inside it! Then, using the whole class and metre sticks, they made the 5 cubic…
The Oxford Times interview CEO Gabriel Hemery about the Sylva Foundation, focussing on the OneOak project to be launched in 2010.
Niel Nicholson of Nicholson Nurseries visited Bladon Primary school today to help sow the next generation of oak trees. We have already posted the story of how difficult it has been to collect acorns this autumn see here. With help from many of the staff of Blenheim Palace, the total number of seeds collected by…
We are pleased to announce that Oxford-based building company SYMM are our newest partners in the OneOak project. The company was founded in 1815; some 35 years before the OneOak tree was planted at Blenheim Estate. SYMM have since worked with many of our most pre-eminent architects on the design and construction of many of…
Wood gurus James Binning from Deep in Wood sawmill and furniture designer Phil Koomen visited the OneOak tree this week. We asked for their expert opinion as to the possible amount of usable timber we may be able to harvest from the tree. We hope to be able to make many wooden products from the…
We are delighted that a very talented artist will be working on the OneOak project. Rebecca Hind is an Oxfordshire-based artist who works predominently with paint. She has exhibited widely both in Britian and abroad. “Oak trees have long held a significant place in our culture, one that goes way beyond ornament or function. Once…
The Oxford Times -In Business- interview CEO Gabriel Hemery and Director of Forestry Alistair Yeomans about Sylva’s aim to support sustainable forestry.
