nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
As part of the Chilterns LEADER project a myForest inventory and mapping meeting will be held at the Pavilion, Newlands Lane, Stoke Row (for the Cricket pitch). The meeting will start with an indoor presentation by Alistair Yeomans of the Sylva Foundation on the myForest woodland inventory toolkit, to help with the gathering of…
Chestnut blight, caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (C. parasitica), has been confirmed in Britain for the first time by scientists from Forest Research. The blight was found on young trees in two small orchards of European sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa) in Warwickshire and East Sussex. The fungus infection is usually fatal to European sweet chestnut…
Our last piece of OneOak timber has been delivered to a maker. The beam will be used in a new boat, a Trow, being constructed by T Nielsen shipbuilders based at Gloucester Docks. The OneOak beam, measuring 4360 x 220 x 160mm, was transported free of charge from Oxfordshire to T Nielsen in Gloucester, by…
Another of Britain’s leading designer makers, Robert Ingham, has started work on a piece of furniture using wood from the OneOak tree. Robert Ingham, based in Denbighshire, is creating a piece called ‘Throne’. Like all the OneOak pieces, we will be following the story of its creation over the next few months on this blog.…
One of Britain’s leading designer makers, Philip Koomen, has started work on his OneOak piece of furniture. We will be following his progress over the next few months. He is collaborating with his son Jody Koomen, also a designer maker, who will be using the offcuts from Philip’s work to make his own pieces. Philip…
Our Sylva Scholar Kirsty Monk, who is running a science project with a primary school in Oxford funded by a Royal Society grant (read more), reports on recent progress. This week has been one of transition for the Royal Society project, seeing the culmination of the pilot class’ investigations and the start of the project…
Chilterns Woodland Conference Friday 16 March 2012 09:30 to 13:00: The Annual Chiltern Woodlands Conference this year will be looking into the future of forestry in England, the use of Box wood for musical instruments, the OneOak project, current forestry issues and news and much more. With talks from the Forestry Commission, Sylva Foundation and John Morris of the Chiltern…
Last year, students from Oxford & Cherwell Valley College’s (OCVC) Rycotewood Furniture Centre worked with all the school children in the OneOak project to design outdoor seating (read more). The students based their designs on the work of the children, and five schools are now proud owners of some unique seating in their playgrounds, made…
Two videos of the OneOak Sounding Bowl have been released this week. The first shows the making and turning processes by Tobias Kaye of Sounding Bowl-310, plus a second bowl that unfortunately developed a fatal split during the making process. The second video is of Tobias Kaye playing Bowl-310 to demonstrate its beautiful deep melodic…
The authors of The New Sylva are looking for a good example of a forest-grown wild cherry tree for illustration by our Artist in Residence Sarah Simblet. Visit The New Sylva website to find out more.
