Posted in Woodcraft on Sep 19th, 2011
This Spring and Summer we have been experimenting with some of the uses of the bark from Sweet Chestnut Trees and wish to share some of our findings. The pictures are pretty informative and there is a separate gallery of all the pictures related to this.
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Posted in Woodcraft on Jul 28th, 2010
This weekend we at last got down to work on the compost toilet, which we seem to have avoided doing on out last 3 visits.
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Posted in Woodcraft on May 30th, 2010
This is my first attempt at making a woven hurdle. None of the coppice growth on the Hazel was really very straight or easily cleavable so I decided to use what was available, to see how it went and to learn a bit more about technique. With the right materials and a lot more practice […]
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Posted in Woodcraft on May 13th, 2010
On our first camp at Lunar Wood Oscar made a chair from a trunk of Sweet Chestnut [Castanea sativa].
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