Coed Hills Forest Garden

29/04/2024

Intresting if you are looking to finance your woodland creation scheme

29/03/2024

Why are we not seeing more trees on farm, despite what we know they can do?

31/12/2022

For the 12 days of Christmas
12 reasons to plant in 2023...
No.7 https://youtu.be/lFREO94UQGo?t=446
Jon Freeman from Devon Wildlife Trust tells us that we have 125 million Ash trees in the UK. is predicted to kill 80-95% of them

22/12/2022

After making a film about how we cannot JUST plant trees for Carbon Sequestration, that there are many other great reasons to plant trees. We decided it was best to make a film on some of these reasons. From Silvopasture systems, to planting for migrating birds, from securing a source of materials for the future to flood managment.
We were very fortunate to have 8 wonderful people to interview.
Some well known, all passionate and knowledgable.

Please do share widely with your friends.

Why do we desperately need more trees? We asked experts at Riverford Farm, the National Trust, the Sylva Foundation and the Timber Frame Company - as well De...

14/09/2022

28/06/2022

If you have Ash in your woodland here is how to identify the healthy trees and report them…not really forest garden, but important.

Future Trees Trust and DEFRA presents The Living Ash Project. The Living Ash Project aims to identify a large and diverse number of ash trees with good toler...

12/06/2022

Can we plant enough trees to save us from a warming planet? https://youtu.be/li6AYguTrs8

21/12/2021

From Charly Le Mar: A big thank you to the Coed Hills community for welcoming me back with my filming buddies Jenny Macdonald and Tom Barnes from to revisit some of the wonderful tree based projects I was involved in and to plan our next series. Here is a short film that Jenny filmed whilst we were there.

Season's Greetings from all of us at Wood for the Trees, and MASSIVE THANKS to all our guests in this series so far. In Wood for the Trees, Tom Barnes, sawmi...

24/02/2020

Construction is bad for the environment. What if we could grow our buildings instead?

23/07/2019

In January 1969, 50 years ago this year, Robert Whittaker proposed his new five kingdom classification system, finally giving Fungi their rightful place, taxonomically separated from plants, in a kingdom all their own.

For hundreds of years, Fungi had been placed incorrectly in the early classification systems, often joining the ‘lower plants’ such as mosses and liverworts, which also produce spores.

In many circles they weren’t even considered a form of living organism, instead classified with the minerals and described as 'excrescences of the earth’, the work of spirits or the fae.

Our increased knowledge of this hidden kingdom has led not just to changes in how we view fungi, but also how we view nature, as a rich and complex symbiotic whole system that is laced with, and driven by, a phenomenal array of microorganisms that permeate every part of it.

But this is only the beginning! We still know so little. There are currently 144,000 species of fungi known to science, but best estimates based on what can be found in certain habitats suggests there may be 2.2 to 3.8 million species globally!

We’re finding fossil fungi in ancient seabeds that could change how we understand the evolution of life, symbiotic fungi living with sea grasses and corals, new species found in the guts of insects, new relationships with plants, and the importance of those that live on and inside us. All this and some of them can survive in Earth’s most extreme environments, so who knows where they will turn up next!

Happy 50th anniversary to the Kingdom/Queendom Fungi!

Come and join us in celebration on UK Fungus Day, 5th October in Bristol!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1398078667011689/

Image: Ernst Haeckel, 1904