Dr Joan Webber, Principal Pathologist and Head of Tree Health Research Group at Forest Research, has become the tenth winner of the Peter Savill Award.
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Tony Kirkham MBE, VMH was on a lecture tour in the Midwest and eastern USA at the Morton Arboretum, Chicago Botanical Garden, and the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago in the state of Illinois, Missouri Botanical Garden in St Louis, and Oak Spring Garden in Virginia and was so excited to meet some of the remarkable oak trees in these states.
Today Woodland Heritage announces a £238,442 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to create ‘Woodland Heritage Skills’; two years of educational workshops, digital educational assets and collaboration with its members and partners to deliver the charity’s new Open Woods & Workshops initiative.
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Nick Wright describes his work at the Snowdon School of Furniture which started as a one-week summer school, the brainchild of David Snowdon and Carmel Allen, Linley’s then creative director, to celebrate 30 years of Linley Furniture and give something back to support student makers.
Hailing from Utah in the US, Justin Davies, most widely known as JustinTheTrees, has brought wood culture to hundreds of millions by sharing his adventures with trees and timber. John Orchard speaks with Justin about the concept of species loneliness, the taste of sassafras ice cream and the intense optimism found in bringing people closer to nature.
