nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Over the last 18 months Sylva Foundation has been working with the Deer Initiative, grant-funded by Forestry Commission England and Natural England, to develop new functionality in myForest that will allow land owners and managers to create Deer Management Plans and collate annual monitoring data.
A two-minute timelapse film showing the first six months work creating a new forest at the Sylva Wood Centre. Watch out for archaeology, farming, surveying, tree planting, public volunteers, and emerging wildflowers.
Last week the National Tree Improvement Strategy was launched by the Future Trees Trust. Sylva Foundation is proud to be a supporting partner.
The Future of Forestry was this week’s theme on the BBC Radio 4 flagship environmental programme Costing the Earth. Reporter Tom Heap visited the Sylva Wood Centre to interview Sylva CEO Gabriel Hemery and one of our resident furniture makers.
We are looking forward to opening the Sylva Wood Centre to the public again during Oxfordshire Artweeks 2017. From 6-14 May come and meet our amazing resident craftspeople, plus invited artists, and this year for the first time also enjoy a stroll around the newly-planted Wittenhams Community Orchard and Future Forest.
From a bare field in January to a new growing woodland in April boasting 7,500 trees and a wildflower meadow, we reflect on four amazing months of activity with our new Forest Friends.
Kubota launched its partnership with the charity by taking part in an ‘Earth, Wind and Fire’ event at the Sylva Foundation Wood Centre, situated in the South Oxfordshire countryside.
Last week eighty forest educators came together at Bishops Wood Centre to increase their skills and knowledge in forestry at a conference run by England’s Forest Education Network (FEN). Sylva Foundation played a key role in developing the forestry theme of the conference and helping deliver the conference in its role as one of six national organisations on the FEN steering group.
Ten key principles of the Tree Charter are published today, aiming to bring trees and woods to the centre of UK society.
This week the Wittenhams Community Orchard was formally opened by Oxfordshire’s High Sheriff Sarah Taylor, attended by all the children from the local primary school, volunteers, funders and neighbours. Earlier in the week we also installed the first of our beehives in our new Apiary.