As you may have already seen here at Working Class Heroes we love getting ourselves stuck into local environmental projects, while the majority of our work has focused on woodland projects we are also keen to get stuck into other causes. We have recently been expanding our horizons…
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…
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…
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…
It’s a new year and the team here at WCH have been keen to get back out into the woods to get stuck in again. This week we joined Cumbria Woodlands and the Woodland Trust near Pennington to plant some saplings in an ancient woodland site. Our team…
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…
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…
The Saga Continues For those who tune in to WCH weekly, you may be aware that we don’t just sell t-shirts. For those new readers, we also quite like to get out in the field (or woodland) and get stuck in with some environmental work, to improve conditions…
We’re back in the woodlands again for some 1% For The Planet work. The grind don’t stop! This week, our task was to build a fence around the area we coppiced, to ensure the old shrubs are untouched and can flourish in the forest. The weather was grim…
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…
