Last week we were back out in the woods – it’s been too long! The team had been invited by Cumbria Woodlands to explore one of Britain’s temperate rainforests. In the morning, we took a closer look at the forest floor to see what’s happening beneath the canopy. Then, in the afternoon, we helped restore a former Western Hemlock plantation back to native woodland. A walk into the temperate rainforest. To start the day off…
As you may have already seen here at Working Class Heroes we love getting ourselves stuck into local environmental projects,…
We’re back in the woods again (we can’t keep ourselves away) with the help of Olivia from The Lake District…
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…
