Author: Arabella Melville

Cylchlythyr 112 – Tachwedd 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.

Cylchlythyr 111 – Medi 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

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)…