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It was an incredibly sunny and calm day for our return to the woods. We all appreciated being outside and working on lots of different...

The Heartwood Project staff and community would like to wish everyone a healthy, joyful and nature connected 2025. We had our final day...

What a fantastic festive celebration we had today. We finally sat down around the magnificent banqueting table and had our Christmas...

What a great time we've had at Heartwood today. It has been incredibly muddy under foot around the shelter and fire area and we resorted...

Today it's been all about making the magnificent banqueting! Mark and one of our students started it last Wednesday and completed it...

Today it was incredibly rainy in the morning and the temperature dropped off in the afternoon. It felt as though winter has finally...

Today is Mark's birthday and if that wasn't enough excitement we had a huge delivery of wood generously donated to us from NFF Timber...

This week it was a lovely dry, calm autumnal day and one of our keen photographers made the most of photographing the autumn fungi and...

Happy Samhain- this week we celebrated the traditional Celtic/pagan celebration of Samhain. It is now know as Halloween but before Trick...

It was a surprise to receive not one but two requests for orders for planters last week and so the building begins. We had two planters...

This week we've been embracing the fruits of autumn. Over the past few weeks, some of us have been cracking the outer shells off the...

This week Sam brought some sheep fleece and carding brushes to the Heartwood Project so we could have a go at making some felted sheep...

This week it's been all about making things. We've been honing our woodworking skills to complete making the planter we started last...

What a fabulous day! We celebrated the Autumn Equinox and also one of our student's birthdays with homemade pizzas made in the wood fired...

It was fantastic to welcome back one of our students after a long break. Our Heartwood community really appreciate spending time together...

We are very proud to have finished making the new rustic chair for our fire circle. We all had a try on it and were pleased with how...

This week at Heartwood we had a quieter day and enjoyed the late summer sunshine and blue skies. It was lovely to spend time fixing the...

We had a hugely enjoyable day in the warm sunshine. Puppy Barley was incredibly relaxed today and sat in his crate watching all the...

We returned after our week's annual leave and it was great to see everyone again. One lovely surprise was that everything in fruit corner...

The big news of the week is that Mark has got a puppy and it came to Heartwood. Puppy Barley was an absolute superstar and won everyone's...