Here are some recent images of what often goes unnoticed on a visit to Harestanes. We've often wondered what would be the best way to record all the flora and fauna that lives with us near the workshop and gallery. This is a record of the natural environment that surrounds the popular children's playpark in the Scottish Borders. It's a record made by the people that walk, work and visit this little oasis in the busy farming community that surrounds us. We are using the fantastic free app resource of iNaturalist. If you are a regular visitor to Harestanes or The Big Tree Society please think about becoming part of this mini-citizen science project called Hidden Harestanes. You'll have to sign up, then post your observations on the Hidden Harestanes Project page here.
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The talent machine keeps on sending us great new makers. There has been an incredible stream of intuitive makers recently all taking to the green woodworking like they've been at it all their lives ! We mainly use ash for our Big Tree greenwood working courses - but we do use many of our beautiful locally grown timbers in the work we sell in our Buy Design Gallery. Home grown elm, ash, beech, cherry, sycamore, oak, sweet chestnut, alder and birch etc all make up a fantastic range of colour and properties for a wide range of homeware products. We are absolutely sure that you can see people grow taller during the days events. Gaining confidence, tackling the huge range of techniques to learn to make their very own piece of work. We quite often see the look of trepidation when course attendees are presented with a massive lump of wood and an an axe first thing in the morning and by the end of the day they have mastered the skills to make a beautiful piece of work.. It's amazing to watch it all unfold from their hands. Just love these old posters ... makes you want to be amongst them doesn't it ?
Chris for Treetops to Workshop came in last week and gave us a hand to cross cut some of the longer ash which we will use up in the first few weeks of courses. Always good to get the tree specialists and foresters involved in the chain of custody. As it happens Chris is a really good maker as well and often helps out on the courses. Bringing an extra skills set to the days.
Got some new banner printed up for the workshop doors. We get a lot of visitors to the gallery and workshop who are just transfixed by the chairmaking and green wood activity. Show them and they will come !!!
 Our local woodlands took a right battering in the recent storms. From communit4y woodlands to large commercial operations nobody escaped the Arwens, Barras, whatever and whatever !! Massive damage to some big old trees round the workshop and up at the community woodlands. Going to be a lot of remedial work and planting over the next few years not weeks !!!
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