who owns a woodland?

[firewoodman]

anyone own a woodland?

 

how do you work it?

what did you pay for it? (if you don,t mind telling)

what do you get out of it?

what can you do with it?

do you enjoy it?

 

reason i ask is i would love to own one but have always wondered if it is worth it

 

would it be for profit from production or for re-sale or would it just be for sheer pleasure and self satifaction

[David oakman]

Same here i would love my own woodland i did nearly buy one but i did not. The charcoal burner on grand designs got it right build a log cabin in your own wood live off the nuts and berrys woodburners in every room cool my kind of life by the way has anyone else got hazel nuts this year i cant see any too many squirrels:001_smile:

[Dean Lofthouse]

I own a small one of about 4 acres, I was more or less given it by a friend. I use it as a yard and log store.

 

Not big enough for anything really. I looked into buying 50 acres up around kettlewell, but too remote and far away to work.

 

I try and leave my little woodland as natural as possible with broken limbs hanging creating bat habitat with deadwood also left where it can be.

Any roots I dig out I put in a pile and cover with twigs.

 

Since i have been actively creating these little habitats and since the log piles came along, the wren population has seen a massive increase and I now regularly see Woodpeckers.

 

I don't like to see a "clean" woodland, no good for wildlife

[David oakman]

Yes you are right about clean woodlands but you do need to clean small areas or glades to bring back woodland wild flowers and they bring back the bees and butterflys. since i have worked here i have brought back early purle orchids in four of my woods in one i had over400 this year,i have now started on a wood clearing it and i have now got some snakes head fratillarys moschatel and herb paris a wood is complex and takes a lot of thought to do the right thing.

[Dean Lofthouse]

I did thin it out a little David, taking out spindly oaks and sycamores, and have also started taking out Rhodies , it was infested with them. Then started on clearing the bramble, I am now starting to see flowers appearing, no idea what they are I'm not good with them.

 

What I have seen a lot of is those ones with a green stalk with clumps of little red berries on the top about 12" high, don't know what they are was going to look them up.

[David oakman]

A few years back they got some rhods and tryed to plant them around the estate but thank goodness they all died did not take to the boulder clay. your plant is lords and ladies do not eat the berries deadly:001_smile:

[firewoodman]

so mainly for pleasure then unless its on a large scale.

 

kinda like a large garden

[penfold]

they sound like Arum or lords and ladies:alberteinstein:

[Dean Lofthouse]

Thats the fella

 

[RichardT]

I own and live in a plantation with some semi-/natural woodland pockets. In the process of gradually felling most of the former and replanting/regenerating as the latter. I get contractors in for clearfell & main thinning, which brings in some money, as do the pigs we run in some compartments, though not nearly enough to live on. Have done firewood on a small scale, but would need to buy in hardwood and kit to do it properly. Any number of things we could do here given £ and planning approval...in 4 yrs we've put in roads, yard, house, barns and services, so both are a bit tight by now.