About Plashett Wood
Community Workshop
About Plashett Wood
Community Workshop
Our Sustainable Woodland Community Workshop Project
We (Plashett Community Workshop) are creating a sustainable woodland project in the Low Weald of East Sussex, the first step of which is to build a forestry workshop on the edge of Plashett Wood.
The project is aiming to combine traditional woodworking skills and sensitive woodland management, the two working together to support the other.
Once the workshop has been built courses in traditional woodworking crafts and green wood working will be taught, using materials sustainably harvested from the wood.
What makes a Woodland Sustainable?
Many of the products that have been produced from woodlands in the past have no current economic value. This mainly due to the high input of labour required to produce and process them.
We are aiming to use these under valued materials in the building of the forestry workshop and the courses that will be subsequently run in it. The use of these materials will help the woodland to be managed in a sensitive way.
The under valued materials range from small diameter, knotty and bent oak timber, other materials grown in the wood such as brambles, coppice material to deer skins.
The Sustainable Woodland Site
Plashett wood is a 160 hectares of ancient semi natural and ancient woodland, all of which is a SSSI (site of special scientific interest).
The woodland is managed to maximise its biodiversity values. The main way of doing this is to manage the woodland in a traditional and sensitive way, producing timber and other woodland products in a manner that protects and enhances the many and varied habitats in the woodland; above and below the ground.
The Estate and Local Residents
We are looking to involve local residents in the building and running of the Workshop. We are looking for specific skills you may have, and can help train people for others.
If you want to find out more please get in touch.
