{"id":7322,"date":"2015-11-25T09:48:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2015-11-25T09:48:32","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T09:48:32","slug":"wood-culture-thrives-on-a-sunday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wood-culture-thrives-on-a-sunday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Wood Culture thrives on a Sunday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7323\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/L4L-Paul1-22NOV15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7323\" class=\"wp-image-7323 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/L4L-Paul1-22NOV15.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Orsi highlights biodiversity improvements in a recently-pollarded area of willow\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Paul Orsi highlights biodiversity improvements in a recently-pollarded area of willow<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last Sunday morning twenty people came to an event held in West Oxfordshire to learn about woodland management.\u00a0 The participants were taking part in <em>Logs for Labour <\/em>scheme events around the county.\u00a0 <em>Logs for Labour<\/em> is an innovative scheme run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trustforoxfordshire.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trust for Oxfordshire\u2019s Environment<\/a> through their successful Community Woodland Programme.\u00a0 It is a way of connecting landowners who need some small scale woodland work carried out, with people who are interested in cutting their own firewood.\u00a0 There are multiple benefits; from bringing more woodland into active management, to health benefits for the participants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The training session helped participants gain a deeper understanding about woodland management.\u00a0 Paul Orsi, Sylva&#8217;s Director for Forestry, explained the biodiversity as well as the economic and social benefits of active woodland management.\u00a0 The training session was brought to life through a woodland walk highlighting work undertaken by members of the Mill Wood Education and Restoration Project.\u00a0 Participants also learned about essential First Aid and Risk Assessments required to carry work out safely.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you would like to know more about Logs for Labour visit \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxonwoodfuel.org.uk\/logs-for-labour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.oxonwoodfuel.org.uk\/logs-for-labour<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many thanks to Combe Mill and to Blenheim Palace for providing a fantastic venue (both indoors and out).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent workshop run under the innovative Logs for Labour scheme, led by the Trust for Oxfordshire\u2019s Environment, Sylva&#8217;s Paul Orsi explained the biodiversity as well as the economic and social benefits of active woodland management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/L4L-Paul1-22NOV15.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}