Sustainable woodland management in the Leeds Area
All our bean poles and pea sticks are now be sold through the fantastic York Gate Garden in Adel.
The shop will be open from 1st april, Wednesday – Sunday, 11.00am – 4.30pm.
Their address is Back Church Ln, Adel, Leeds LS16 8DW.
Phone; 0113 267 8240
Website; https://perennial.org.uk/garden/york-gate-garden/
Join us for some hearty woodland activities, learn all about coppicing, meet new people, feel good and help look after our woodlands.
Volunteer dates are;
– January 14th @ Nut Wood
– February 3rd, Tree planting @ Pool Bank
– February 11th @ Hetchel Wood
– February 25th @ Bramhope Wood
– March 17th @ Carlshead
If you feeling like joining us, please get in touch to confirm your place as we need to consider staff numbers and safety. If you have any other additional needs please let me know.
Please bring sturdy boots, water proofs, warm clothes, lunch, water, work gloves. We’ll supply hot drinks and cake.
Thanks 🙂
Thanks 🙂
This summer we are on a mission to reconnect the people of Leeds with the woods!
Through generous funding from the National Lottery community fund, we have been inviting community groups from inner city Leeds to our favourite woodlands.
Groups from The Feel Good Factor, TCV and Hyde Park Source have been learning about woodland managment and getting very hands on with coppicing and wood craft.
We have been keen to make sure participants create something physical that can be taken home and be put to good use. The HPS Lost Plot group created some Hazel Hurdles that would make great wind breaks at their allotment, whilst the Feel Good Factor group made some great looking spatulas.
LCW have made quite a few new friends along this journey. It’s been a real joy to be able to reach out and meet new people that may have not had the chance otherwise.
“Thank you for such a fantastic sunny day in the woods! Our volunteers absolutely loved both days and were a very happy fulfilled contented bunch in the taxi home.
Do hope we can do this again later in the year and bring other volunteers to experience it all.”
With new skills, we hope participants will be empowered and reach out for other volunteering opportunities, qualifications or maybe even employment. A big thanks to the National Lottery community fund for making these workshops possible.
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/
With support from Making Local Woods Work, we are exited to share with you a short video all about Leeds Coppice Workers and what we do.
Thanks to our amazing volunteers, Plunkett Foundation, MLWW and One Planet Media for making this possible.
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.
