Living With Trees - Newsletter Dec 2021 |
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Hi there, Welcome to the December Newsletter for Living With Trees. Do forward this to anyone who might be interested. Keep well and happy festivities! Thanks Robin |
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It has been quite an autumn for tree news and events. We had the Shaftesbury Tree Festival in September, with these wonderful hats and artwork by Jon Corry. I love that shadow of a tree (below), drawn in chalk with the help of many kids. |
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During a visit to Cambridge I found the most wonderful trees filling college courtyards and seen through chapel windows. Trees really do create spaces which draw people in, inviting them to linger and appreciate the life around them. |
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It was a great joy to visit a site I helped plant in January 2013, at Gold Hill Farm, Child Okeford, Dorset. The birch have done spectacularly well and many of the other native broadleaves are thriving. |
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Autumn was rather slow this year down our way, but it did have some special moments, such as this magnificent tulip tree picked out by the sun, near St. James's church. |
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This year I have spent a lot of time researching and writing a policy paper on Regenerative Forestry for the Soil Association. It is with the designers now and should be published as a pdf download in the new year. I coined the term 'regenerative forestry' as a complement to regenerative agriculture, advocating a land use which not only produces timber and fibre for us, but which also brings benefits for biodiversity, climate and people. It can be done and there are many fine examples. Another question I am researching is "How many trees do we need in Britain?" We only have 13% forest cover (European average is about 40%) and we import 81% of the wood we consume, so we really need to do more - but how much, and where . . . ? I hope to be writing more about this. |
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Live Talks Tomorrow (Thursday) I am giving a talk with slide show on 'Living With Trees' for Tisbury Natural History Society. Start 7.30. On 19th Jan I will be at the Sherborne chapter of Dorset Wildlife Trust at The Digby Memorial Church Hall, Digby Road, Sherborne DT9 3NL. Start 7.30. |
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Buy a signed copy of my book for xmas There is still time to buy a signed copy of my book from my website here. Not only will you be supporting real writers and publishers, you will also be doing your part to prevent wanton billionaires from messing up space! |
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back to the massive beech flexing under storm christoph the stiff stems absorb the storm in graceful kinetics with whoosh and arc they receive the wind where it brushes the land they catch it hold it for a moment then let it fly |
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Book a LIVE talk ! What better way to spend an evening than an entertaining talk about the wonderful benefits of trees and how we might have more in our lives. Book a talk for your community group, wildlife trust, U3A or business. On this link you can also see a 2 min taster video of the talk with slides, graphs, and commentary. |
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