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Thanks to everyone who has purchased our garden supports this year. Please note that York Gate Garden in Adel will have our last 10 remaining bundles of bean poles, so get in there quick. Pea sticks are also selling fast.

As well as some great gardens, they also have a lovely nursery and cafe. They are open most afternoons but closed Friday and Saturday.

Here’s a link to the YGG website, with also some nice words about us.
https://perennial.org.uk/garden/york-gate-garden/from-the-head-gardener/

Leeds Coppice Workers are currently selling biochar at £7 for a 25 litre bag for soil improvement. Discounts are available for bulk orders of 10+ bags and 20+ bags.

Biochar is a carbon-rich product, created by the slow burning of plant material with little or no oxygen.

Biochar helps raise crop yields and reduces the need for fertilisers; and as it is a very stable substance, the carbon it contains is locked away for thousands of years. As that carbon had been absorbed from the atmosphere as the plants grew, what we have is a net removal of carbon from the atmosphere and storage in soil.

Biochar is most effective when ‘charged’. This is simply when it is mixed with a compost for at least a month so that it takes on additional nutrients and is able to release them into the soil more slowly than if the compost were unaltered.

As with all our products you are you helping support the productive use of all parts of the tree within a woodland management context, whereby waste wood is converted to barbequeue charcoal and waste  charcoal fines then become biochar.

Get in contact if you’d like to place an order

Looking for an excuse to go to the woods?  Come to our volunteer days at some of the best woodland Leeds has to offer. This year we’ll be working at Hetchel woods, Castle Hill and Town Close and we’ve also popped in a weekend date.

Thurs 25th Oct
Sat 10th Nov
Fri 23rd Nov
Mon 10th Dec

January TBC.

Learn everything there is to know about coppicing. Improve your skills with a Bill hook. Help manage neglected woodland and come and enjoy some outdoor fun.

This December we are delighted to be back at Hetchel Woods to continue our restoration work of the past few years. We really enjoy working at this ancient woodland. It’s a tranquil retreat and offers a diverse mixture of tree species and habitat… And the natural spring water tastes incredible!

LCW have scheduled a volunteer day at Hetchel on Wednesday 14th December and we’d love for you to join us.

Whether you have lots of experience or none at all, these days are a great way to meet other people, develop skills, learn new skills and most importantly enjoy being outside whilst contributing to sustainable management of Leeds Woodland.

http://www.ywt.org.uk/reserves/hetchell-wood-nature-reserve

Hetchel Woods Specific directions:

The nature reserve is seven miles north east of Leeds. If approaching from Wetherby via the A58 Leeds-Wetherby road, to reach the main entrance on Milner Lane take the left turn signposted Thorner at the Bracken Fox pub crossroads at Scarcroft. Keep left at a triangular intersection and the nature reserve entrance is on the left, 0.5 miles further on. There is also a public footpath (parking for a few cars) from the side of the A58 at Bardsey.

Bring food, drink, work gloves, waterproofs, warm clothes and boots. Tools will be provided but useful tools to bring include bow saws and bill hooks.

If you are planning to come along please let me know via email so we can gauge numbers.

If anyone has a real problem with reaching the site then we can look into a potential lift from Hyde Park Source in Woodhouse leaving at 8pm or from the Reginald Centre in Chapeltown but do please try to find an independent method of transport. It’s also ok if you reach us later than 8.30.

Thanks for your interest and look forward to catching up/ meeting you soon.

So folks…. our firewood pile has never been so big. It is HUGE! All sustainably sourced from local woods, seasoned for 2-3 years at our wood yard, dry and ready for your burners.. Help support the regeneration and management of some of Leeds most important woodlands.

It is now possible to order online by bank transfer or paypal. Please go to our firewood shop. Otherwise just email leedscoppiceworkers@gmail.com and we can arrange delivery.

Please note we only deliver free to Leeds postcodes ls1-ls18. If you are in another postcode please get in touch to confirm delivery costs before you order.

For the last few weeks Leeds Coppice Workers have been out coppicing at Townclose Hills. Unusually for the Leeds area these woods are in-rotation coppice. This means that they were cut 8-9 years ago and so the material is a good size for many of the coppice products we supply, such as bean poles/ hedging stakes/ pea sticks/ hurdle rods. As part of our long term commitment to improving the quality of the woodland we are doing lots of layering of stools to improve the density of trees. This is the traditional approach to tree propagation and is a very successful way of getting new trees from the existing stock within the wood. So no need to non local seed or plant nurseries.

Last years cut has regrown brilliantly with pretty much no animal browsing. This is great news for the future because were already getting excited about cutting it again in 8 years time!

If anybody is interested in getting involved volunteering just get in contact leedscoppiceworkers@gmail.com