Harvest woodland products
Woodlands historically produced many resources for people and still do.
Community woodlands can provide a wide range of products and materials that are useful to the communities around them – and have the benefit of being renewable resources. This can include fallen trees for firewood, managed stands for felling for planks and posts, as well as the raw materials for craft work and non timber products such as berries and nuts.
Fuelwood
Community Woodlands can be an important local resource for fuelwood, from felling trees through to pruning techniques such as coppicing.
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Timber
Mature trees, grown straight and tall, can be milled to produce a range of timber products, from planks to fenceposts.
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Woodworking
Wood, in all its shapes, forms and different species, forms a great raw material for a range of woodworking crafts.
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- Association of Polelathe Turners and Green Woodworkers
- Coppice Products: online database of coppice products providers
- Coppicewood College: traditional woodcraft skills
- Dragonfly Creations: traditional woodcraft skills
- Centre for Alternative Technology: traditional woodcraft skills
- Woodland Skills Centre:traditional woodcraft skills
- Abbotts Living Wood: Chair making courses
- Penpont Green Woodworking.
Non wood forest products (NWFP)
Woodlands don’t just provide wood – the berries, nuts and resins trees produce are often useful foodstuffs, or raw materials.
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- Startree: European NWFP research project
- Forest Harvest Network: NWFP in Scotland
- European non-wood forest products (NWFPs) network
- Agroforestry Research Trust: temperate agroforestry and all aspects of plant cropping
- Myddfai Herbs: website dedicated to promoting awareness and understanding of the Welsh tradition of herbal medicine
- Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
