nurturing a wood culture, growing a future
Furniture designer and maker Philip Koomen is featured in the Oxford Times Oxfordshire Limited Edition magazine in the May issue. Philip is one of our main advisors in the OneOak project. The article celebrates Philip’s work and promotes his forthcoming Arts Week Exhibition at his workshops in Checkendon. Our CEO Gabriel Hemery will be giving…
The half hour programme about Sylva’s OneOak project, following the life story of one oak tree, will be broadcast on Sunday 9th May at 13:30 on Sky Channel 171. This is its fourth broadcast on the channel this week. The programme was made by Country Channel TV, and you can watch it anytime online here.
What an adventure we are having following the life of OneOak! From meeting the tree in the autumn, to watching it fall with a mighty crash on a snowy winter’s day, we are enjoying every minute of it! Our latest instalment in the OneOak story came with a visit to the Deep In Wood sawmill…
SYLVA has a promotional stand this week at the Institute of Chartered Foresters’ National Conference in Newcastle. The topic of the conference is “Energy and wood fuel”. The myForest service could play an important role in helping to bring more woodlands into sustainable management, and in connecting the energy market to the resource.
Peter Barrington says the felling on an oak has helped understanding of trees and woodland management. Oxford Times, Weekend, pp. 26-27, Thursday, April 22nd 2010 Read online
Peter Barrington says the felling on an oak has helped understanding of trees and woodland management. Oxford Times, Weekend, pp. 26-27, Thursday, April 22nd 2010 Read more
Moss expert or Bryologist Jacqueline Wright collected moss samples from the OneOak tree on the day that it was felled. Jacqueline volunteers for Shotover Wildlife which is a voluntary organisation founded to research and communicate the importance of Shotover Hill for wildlife. Jacqueline has written the following article for the OneOak project. Green Fuzz! Mosses…
SYLVA CEO, Dr Gabriel Hemery, gave a presentation today at the Forest Research conference “Trees, woods and forests in British society” in Edinburgh. His talk, entitled “Britain’s lost wood culture”, was an invited think-piece and challenged the 100+ delegates to think about the understanding-gap between people and the management of our woods. He compared the…
The April 2010 ( #38 ) issue of ConFor’s magazine, Forestry and Timber News contains a full page article promoting the myForest service to the forestry sector at large.
Today we launched a forum for the myForest service at www.myForest.org.uk. As the myForest website becomes more popular we hope that the forum will be a useful feature for everyone with an interest in the UK woodchain, from woodland owners to wood users, and everyone in between.