Another chance to get your hands dirty and learn new skills as we spend a morning coppicing hazel in Oakley Wood

This month's practical task will focus on the wood's boundaries, planting new hedgerow shrubs and clearing away brash. Practical task days are a great and rewarding opportunity to get more involved in looking after the…

Burn off some of those Christmas calories and help look after Oakley Wood on January's practical task day! We'll be working some more on the woodland boundaries, clearing brash and planting new hedgerows. The habitat…

For February's practical task day we will be tidying brash and creating habitat piles within the wood. Fun, rewarding and social, practical task days are always worth turning out for! Meet at the Crematorium car…

This event has been cancelled because we were so good at earlier tasks that we've run out of things to do! In March we return for more brash clearance along recently widened rides, helping to…

We kick off this year's winter programme of practical tasks with some coppicing and woodland ride management. Coppicing is a traditional woodland management technique that produces a continuous supply of small diameter timber for things…

For December's practical task day we'll be clearing along some of the woodland boundaries in preparation for hedgerow planting. Improving the edge of the wood is a vital part of the management plan. The edges…