Grist Wood Rye

02/06/2020

Woodland ferns so fresh and delicate

02/06/2020

Foxgloves galore from the recently coppiced hazel coupe

25/10/2019

🦌🦌 Great to have Martin & Adele back in time to make Christmas reindeers for your gardens🦌🦌

13/10/2019

I do love autumn, but not so much a soggy one

10/07/2019

11/02/2019

This weekend we'll be mostly making a tree-bog style compost loo in the woods. It's a 'big job', and we'd love some help to make it. If you are willing and able we'd love to hear from you? Thank you

Down on the farm with no mains water supply, going to the loo in the spring drought can prove rather tricky so Tim and Rebecca decided to build a compost toilet that the trees could look after. The only problem is, once you've been in the best bogs of the world, one's own construction has a lot to l...

13/12/2018

We very excited to share Blackbird Arts flyer. Martin Brockman, Adele Scantlebury and Scan are coming to do a withy deer making class at Grist Wood in March! If you'd like more info please contact Adele 🦌👏😀

05/12/2018

Thrilled to have David Dunk complete the hedgelaying to our very gappy and overgrown hazel and hornbeam woodland hedge today. This is a very skilled traditional country craft for which David has won awards. We are delighted to have been able to this with a generous grant from The Sussex Lund and help from The High Weald AONB, and recommendation by the South of England Hedgelaying Society. The gaps in will soon be planted up with a mix of blackthorn, spindle, field maple, hawthorn, guelder rose to add diversity. We hope this will be a wildlife haven for years to come! A few quick before and after pictures below.

10/10/2017

First fire of the season