Author: anthony

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Spring 2019
Byanthony 13th April 201913th April 2019

In this blog… Coppicing is officially finished! Hedgelaying completed! Regenerative Silvopasture Experiment Sheep Update Aikido drop-in taster day Dying matters day Guest spot- A request from Lee Dodg Internship Applications Products from Pentiddy Coppicing is officially finished! We’ve talked about the coppicing at Pentiddy before, so I won’t go into great details. Suffice it to…

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Community Woodland

Community Woodland March 2019 workday cancelled.
Byanthony 3rd March 20193rd March 2019

We’ve done it all! We had a smaller volume of tasks to achieve this year, and one good solid day with a handful of volunteers has seen all the jobs we identified needing to be done finished. Hurrah! We felled only a small number of the Ash trees in one particular area this year, and…

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Volunteering

Internship applications open for 2019/20 season.
Byanthony 22nd February 201922nd February 2019

We are now taking applications for the next Internship season: Please share this information as widely as possible. INTERNSHIP AT PENTIDDY WOODS, CORNWALLAn opportunity for a fully immersive 9 months in an off-grid, land-based, regenerative community.Learn a diverse range of skills from harvesting seaweed to baking in a wood-fired oven, from making hay with a…

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Community Woodland

Community Woodland Workday Cancelled!
Byanthony 25th January 201925th January 2019

Sorry, but we have had to make the decision to cancel this Sunday’s work day as the winds are looking like they will be too strong. We have felled much fewer trees this year, so we may well need only one work day, and all in all it seemed prudent to make this choice. Apologies…

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Community Woodland | Volunteering

Work days and a request…
Byanthony 14th January 201914th January 2019

Community Woodland Volunteer work days- Your chance to get involved with helping to look after your Community woodland! Sunday 27th January Sunday 24th February Sunday 24th March10am-4pm Drinks, soup, bread and cake provided Come along and bring family and friends. This is a fun and rewarding way to give a little back to a local…

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Activism | Bread Oven | Extinction Rebellion | Newsletter | Volunteering | Wild food / foraging

Midwinter 2018
Byanthony 27th December 201827th December 2018

In this Newsletter Introducing the Interns Coppicing has begun Mushroom bounty Extinction Rebellion Hedgerow and Boundaries grant Bread Oven Introducing the new team In October our new interns started their 9 month stint, and we thought it might be nice to introduce them as they will be playing a large part in the activities and…

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Art of Mentoring / 8 Shields | Community Woodland | courses | Events | General | Heartwood Creations | Newsletter

Autumn Equinox
Byanthony 23rd September 2018

So, it’s the time for balance – well it’s good to have something to aspire to!! Day and night are of equal length. It’s the time to celebrate the harvest and to ooze gratitude. Becoming aware of the changing season gives us another chance to look at things anew. The seeds of ideas and hopes…

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Charcoal | courses | green building | products | Volunteering

Lime, Charcoal, Seaweed and Stools
Byanthony 13th July 2018

After a busy few weeks and before Anthony disappears on his Aikido Summer Course we thought we’d post out a quick update on events here… In this newsletter: Stool making course Lime Rendering opportunity Seaweed harvest Charcoal and firewood Stool Making Course Anthony is running a stool making course on 20th/21st October. You will spend…

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General | Water

Appreciation for rain
Byanthony 3rd July 2018

Appreciation for rain – Anthony… Amongst the things that came out of the Nature Culture Regeneration weekend we attended recently was the idea of verbalising an appreciation as a way of bringing our attention to something special we notice each day. Today it was easy to find that appreciation- the blessed rain. In the hottest…

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Scything | scything and haymaking

Scything in the Burial Site has begun!
Byanthony 14th May 201814th May 2018

We have at the last minute decided to take this weather window as an opportunity to cut some, if not all of the burial site. Many of the flowers have finished now, and one of the advantages of mowing by hand means we can be selective, so any that are still looking nice we will…

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