Court Wood workgroups

Workgroups take place most weeks on Wednesday mornings or on a weekend morning, sometimes both, depending on availability. Activities include making charcoal, felling carefully selected trees in season, wood processing (cutting, splitting, stacking) for firewood and use in our charcoal kiln, tree planting and general woodland management, all with a view to improve the health…

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Spring is here – and what does that mean!

Well if it’s spring, one of the first items on the agenda is making charcoal again. The process is relatively simple, it’s certainly age-old (and some of the old hands will insist there is some dark magic to the art that is down to years’ of charcoal production!). This involves ways of laying the wood…

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