This week, we visited The Coppice Co-op at their base in Slack Head to test our hand and eye coordination and make some handmade wooden stools. We’ve been joined by the Coppice Co-op on some of our previous woodland excursions, and today’s visit offered us a great beginner introduction into the types of products that can be crafted from woodland coppice. Who are the Coppice Co-op? The Coppice Co-op are a co-operative coppicing and woodcraft…
This week we joined up with Cumbria Woodlands and The Lake District National Park to do some bracken bashing and…
Spring is here and the team is once again back in the woods. This week we were tasked with doing…
Recently we joined Cumbria Woodlands and The Coppice Co-op again for round 2 of thinning broadleaf back up at Haverthwaite. As we mentioned last time when trees are planted, the work doesn’t stop there. Continued management of these woodland areas is essential. The purpose of this is activity is to improve the quality of the woodland and the trees within it. The high density of trees in young broadleaf plantations encourages fast upwards growth and…
It’s a new year and the team here at WCH have been keen to get back out into the woods…
The team were back out this week with Cumbria Woodlands and the Coppice Co-op undertaking some new work thinning native…
If you’re new here, you may not know that we don’t just sell t-shirts. We also love to help local environmental groups such as Cumbria Woodlands, Lake District National Park and The Coppice Co-op, to help improve the conditions of a local woodland, a short drive from our Ulverston HQ. This week, we were asked to clear some holly trees. This required tools and therefore slightly more brain power than the bracken bash we did a few weeks…
The Saga Continues For those who tune in to WCH weekly, you may be aware that we don’t just sell…
We’re back in the woodlands again for some 1% For The Planet work. The grind don’t stop! This week, our…
Similar to last week’s newsletter, the WCH team were called back into action, much like Thunderbird 2 on another of their famous rescue missions. In case you forgot, coppicing is a pruning technique where a tree or shrub is cut to ground level, resulting in the regeneration of new stems from the base. It is commonly used for rejuvenating and renovating old shrubs. Coppicing opens the woodland area up to more sunlight, which allows a…
