With the hectic Christmas season finally behind us, the team here at WCH have finally had a bit of spare time on our hands to get stuck back into our woodland work – which is exactly what we did last week. Returning to an ancient forest plantation we visited the same time last year, we were back to plant another round of saplings. Joined once again by Angus from Cumbria woodlands. We started the day…
Last week we were back out in the woods – it’s been too long! The team had been invited by…
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 National Park. Our task this time is to help get rid of some invasive Himalayan Balsam, a plant that much like bracken which we have bashed in the past can outcompete native woodland species. Himalayan balsam was introduced by the Victorians as a garden plant in 1839 but soon escaped and found its footing in…
This week, we visited The Coppice Co-op at their base in Slack Head to test our hand and eye coordination…
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 a bit of Spring cleaning, we finished what we started last time and got a few other jobs under our belts too. The first task of the day was to finish the coppice work we were doing last time (read more about why we’re doing this), our goal here was to finish cutting up the…
Recently we joined Cumbria Woodlands and The Coppice Co-op again for round 2 of thinning broadleaf back up at Haverthwaite.…
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 broadleaf trees. When trees are planted, the work doesn’t stop there. Continued management of woodland areas is essential, so the WCH team were called back into action to assist. Thinning the trees in these plantations improves the quality of the woodland and the trees within it. The high density of trees in young broadleaf plantations…
