Author: Arabella Melville

Covid 19: Safety Policy at Boduan Sanctuary Wood

To ensure the safety of mourners and staff in the Eternal Forest, the following precautions will be taken with immediate effect.  Please do not visit the wood if you or anyone in your household are showing any symptoms of the virus, if you are feeling unwell, or if anyone in your household is self-isolating because… Read more »

Newsletter 112 – November 2019

This autumn is spectacular! Yes, the recent weather may have been dire but the colours are glorious. The beeches are particularly lovely this year, all tawny and gold. And there’s so much fruit, so many fungi, so many nuts – I’ve never known an autumn like it.

Newsletter 111 – September 2019

Although it feels like autumn, the woodland trees are still green. I hope the storms don’t arrive for some weeks yet!

Newsletter 104 – August 2018

August is taking its usual damp course – but after warm summer weather, rain brings on the fungi, so I’m not complaining!  We’re holding a fungus foray on September 9th.  Here’s news of that and other things that are going on in the wood.  Enjoy! 

Newsletter 103 – May Day 2018

I am inspired! I was intending to go to the wood last Sunday (it being the last Sunday afternoon of April, and our regular Volunteer Day) but when I heard about the owlets, there was no question – I absolutely had to go! And what a reward I got! A baby owl in my hands!… Read more »

Newsletter 102 – March 2018

The wood is coming back to life after the snow and freezing weather.  Bluebell leaves are poking through the damp ground, the birds are singing and the snowdrops are in bloom… 

Commemorating Colin Johnson: co-founder of The Eternal Forest Trust

Commemorating Colin Johnson: designer, philosopher, inspiration and co-founder of The Eternal Forest Trust.  Without Colin Johnson, there would be no woodland burial site at Boduan.  This newsletter tells the story of the Eternal Forest Trust, an organisation that Colin designed and set up (with a little help from his friends)…