The Woodland Year

Front Cover
Permanent Publications, Apr 2, 2009 - House & Home - 173 pages
1 Review

Packed with stunning color photographs, The Woodland Year is an intimate month-by-month journey through Ben Law’s yearly cycle of work, his naturally attuned lifestyle, and his deep understanding of his woods. The Woodland Year provides a fascinating insight into every aspect of sustainable woodland management, including the cycles of nature, seasonal tasks, wild food gathering, wine making, mouthwatering and useful recipes, coppice crafts, round-pole timber-frame eco-building (pioneered by Ben), nature conservation, species diversity, tree profiles, and the use of horses for woodland work.

This is a profound book that is both practical and poetic. It describes a way of life that is economically and ecologically viable and sets a new standard for managing our woods in a low-impact, sustainable way. As such, it holds some of the fundamental keys to how we can achieve a lower-carbon society.

 

What people are saying - Write a review

We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.

Selected pages

Contents

Foreword
7
NOVEMBER
14
JANUARY
40
FEBRUARY
52
APRIL
76
JULY
110
AUGUST
124
SEPTEMBER
134
OCTOBER
146
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

acres ancient woodland apple barbecue bark Beech Ben Law berries birch blue tits bluebells boil Bottom broadleaf chair charcoal chestnut coppice chopped cleaving colour coppice coppice crafts coppice workers damsons deer demijohn diameter edge ensure extract felling fencing ferment field maple fire firewood flowers forest forestry Forestry Commission fruit furniture gallon green woodworking grey squirrels grow harvest hazel hedgelaying horses hurdles inches kiln larch leaf leaves living logs mushrooms natural olive oil onions peeling Permaculture planting poles Prickly Nut Wood rabbit recipe regrowth ride rods roundwood roundwood timber framing season seed shingles Silvicultural practice soil species split spring stack stems stools sugar summer Sussex sweet chestnut timber framing Top right trees walk warm western red cedar willow wine winter woodland floor woodland house woodland management woodsman workshop wych elm yeast yurt

About the author (2009)

Ben Law trains apprentices and runs courses on sustainable woodland management, roundwood timber framing, coppice crafts, and permaculture design. He was a founding member of the Forest Stewardship Council. He also has worked for Oxfam as a permaculture consultant. He is the author of The Woodland Way: A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management and The Woodland House . He lives in West Sussex, UK. Law's woodland house has been featured on The World's Greenest Homes , a series of the Discovery Channel's Planet Green. Ben's latest book is Roundwood Timber Framing , a full colour guide to his building techniques. His website is www.ben-law.co.uk .

Bibliographic information

QR code for The Woodland Year
TitleThe Woodland Year
AuthorBen Law
Editionillustrated
PublisherPermanent Publications, 2009
ISBN1856230333, 9781856230339
Length173 pages
Subjects › 

House & Home / Reference
Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection
Sports & Recreation / Outdoor Skills
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan