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Badgers, Beeches & Blisters
Getting started in your own wood
| Author: | Julian Evans |
| Published: | May 2006, Reprinted 2008, 2010 |
| Price: | £8.95 inc. p&p |
| Format: | Paperback 132 pp, 44 illustrations |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9541947-0-3 |
Owing to high demand 'Badgers, Beeches and Blisters' has been reprinted with minor revisions and updates in 2008 and 2010.
In partnership with woodlands.co.uk. With illustrations by John White
and Stephen Evans.
How to care for your own wood. Entertaining introduction to get you started. Informative and readable -
everything you need to know.
Thinking of buying a small wood or just like the idea? Do you have some woodland on a farm or smallholding,
but not quite sure what to do? This is the book for you.
"Julian Evans is a rare bird – an experienced forestry professional who really understands how it is for new
small woodland owners . . . because he’s been there himself!" Margaret Hanton, Ownwood Ltd.
About the author
Julian Evans was formerly the Forestry Commission’s Chief Research Officer (S) and is an expert in managing
broadleaved woodlands. He has written several books including two popular ones about his own wood:
"A Wood of Our Own" Oxford, 1995 repr. Permanent Publications, 2003, and
"What Happened to Our Wood", Patula Books, 2002.
- Has owned his Hampshire wood for 24 years
- Regularly writes for Forestry and Timber News on small woods
- Frequent public speaker on care and management of small woods
Contents
- Your new purchase
- First steps
- How do you want to enjoy your wood?
- Guests visiting your wood
- Some things for which you need permission
- Planting and caring for trees
- Planting a wood
- Natural regeneration
- Cleaning, pruning, thinning, and felling
- Coppicing and pollarding
- Woodland crafts and produce
- Enriching woodland for wildlife
- Advice, taxation and certification issues
Appendices: glossary, tree species descriptions, further reading, organisations to join, useful addresses
Reviews
"It is a delight to read and so evocative of my own experience of 12 years of woodland ownership."
Alex Argyropulo, Small Woods Association
"I have enjoyed reading it . . . the balance is absolutely right for the readership you have in mind . ."
Esmond Harris, former Director, Royal Forestry Society
I had so many positive comments . . . "How true!", "Yes, of course!", "That's useful!", "I never knew that before!"
Margaret Hanton, Ownwood Ltd.
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