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Forestry Skills Share: A Song of Diversity
In September 2023 in a field outside Totnes, the Landworkers Alliance Women and Diverse Genders Group met for their first ever Forestry Skills Share.
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Award for Forestry Business Builder John
When John Park joined the Witherslack estate team in Cumbria in 1987 as Assistant Woodman, the forestry team was delivering just 100 tons of firewood within the village.
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Careers Advice: Embrace the Mess
Stressed by exams and big life choices? Does it feel like things have gone wrong & life feels messy? Elle McAllister explains why that might be exactly what you need.
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DiversiTree Webinar: Diversifying Woodlands to Increase Resilience
Catch up with the webinar, recorded in May, with guests Dr Ruth Mitchell, Dr Chris Nicholls, & Dr Norman Dandy discussing the work and findings of the Diversitree project.
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Book Club: Prof Julian Evans OBE FICFor
Catch up with RFS talking trees from the virtual sofa with this interdisciplinary session about "Gods Trees; Trees, Forests and Wood in the Bible" with Professor Julian Evans OBE FICFor.
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What’s the big deal with timber quality?
We’ve been looking towards growing good straight knot-free cylinders of wood for centuries and, by and large, are actually quite good at it when we put our minds to it. The world is, however, changing. New science, new technology, new ways of using timber challenge our preconceptions of what quality timber actually is.
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Building and Living in Timber
Pennerley Permaculture owners Jon and Cheryl Kean live and work 1000 feet up on the site of an old lead mine at Stiperstones, Shropshire, close to the Welsh borders. Their mission to build three sustainable timber homes on the site led to a search for UK suppliers, not always successfully, and raised a number of challenges.
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