13/10/2025
2025/26 COPPICING DATES, ASHINGTON & WISTON!!!
Cometh the hour, cometh the bow-saws!!! We’re kicking off our 2025/26 coppicing season on SATURDAY OCTOBER 25 at Ashington, and WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29 at Wiston.
JOIN US IN THE WOODS! Full training, tools, food, drinks and an all round lovely time all provided. Email rootswestsussex@gmail.com and we’ll send you all the details.
The nights are drawing in, the mornings are chillier, the mushrooms are out in force, the shelter in the woods and our unique hand-crafted woodland bench The Fippard are still standing. This can only mean one thing. It’s time to get back in the woods.
This season we are super excited not only to continue coppicing at Ashington but also to be working in partnership with the Wiston Estate on a new (to us) site.
The Wiston Estate and their ecologist Penny Green are keen to manage some of their land for biodiversity, and to welcome the local community into their beautiful woodlands. They also have plenty of overstood hazel that could do with coming back into rotation. Through our friends at the Lost Woods of the Low Weald and Downs project, they also came across local charity Making It Out who are working alongside the University of Brighton to create furniture from coppice product and keen to get stuck into a bit of coppicing. And so what we are doing at Roots is perfectly in line with what Wiston want to do with their land, and hey presto! A partnership was born.
And as if it were written in the stars, the site we’ve identified is just a stone’s (or stick’s) throw from our existing site in Ashington.
Read all about it at our Substack https://rootswestsussex.substack.com/ 🍄🍂🌱🪵
