Lower Worthygate Green Wood Project

Home  |  Background to woods  |  Biodiversity  |  Green wood work  |  Flora and Fauna Surveys  |  Maps  |  Contact 

Bodgers and Badgers is a small scale woodland project started in October 2000. It is located in beautiful woods near Bucks Mills on the North Devon coast. 

Project  Aims 

1) to identify and encourage wild life

2) to learn traditional woodland skills  

3) to explore sustainable woodland management

4) to develop a woodland amenity

5) to fulfill a wish to work outdoors in a close relationship with the natural environment.

Fauna and Flora Surveys. These involved guided woodland walks, monthly recordings and live trappings.

Green Wood Work Skills (such as “chair bodging” ) involved:

a) building a “pole lathe” and a “shave horse”

b) learning to turn green wood and use a froe, side axe, bill hook

c) learning to pass on skills.   

Managing the Wood. I attended courses on coppicing, hurdle making, charcoal burning and restoring neglected woodland to learn how to do this in a sustainable way.  

Biodiversity Exercise. Work on restoring neglected coppice started in January 2003. Volunteers cut hazel stools and willow, and erected temporary deer fencing. The effects on flora and fauna are being observed.

Home  |  Background to woods  |  Biodiversity  |  Green wood work  |  Flora and Fauna Surveys  |  Maps  |  Contact 

© copyright 2002 Sue Seymour.  Website design: www.webclever.co.uk