Category: General
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Following the Chestnut Tree: Exploring the connection between Global Generation and Wilderness Wood
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.” — Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (2007) “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” — Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) “I started off down the ride from Deer Path to the moat, with the rain rat-a-tat-tatting on…
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Black Mountains and Beyond 2: Hedgelaying, Ancestry, Narratives and thoughts about Back-to-the-Land movements.
At the end of a splendid week on the road with my Canadian friend Andrew Millward visiting the Black Mountains College (see previous post) we connected with my old buddy Nigel Adams in Oxford. Nigel took Andrew and I for a days hedge-laying in Henley. It was supposed to be two days, but at Nigel’s…
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The Black Mountains and Beyond: A Road Trip Brain Dump
Talgarth, South Wales. This is my first blog in a while and is really just a collection of thoughts and ideas that have been surfacing, or have surfaced during this road trip, arranged in no particular order! Its going to be a bit fragmented while I get down lots of ideas to follow up later.…
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Land Skills for Wellness and Sustainability
This Spring, a new project is starting at the University of Waterloo which will offer students, faculty and staff opportunities to connect with land-based skills and crafts. The project is a collaboration between the Ontario Land Skills Network and the University of Waterloo and is based on research linking craft and skills practice, connection to…
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Thoughts on Moving into Right Relationships
As the Winter turned into Spring I have been getting outside as time permits using my forestry skills to fell some trees for trail clearance, thinning and mushroom log harvest and cutting some cedar for construction projects. We are reopening a trail next to Cold Creek which hasn’t been used for so long it’s got…
James T Jones 