We are looking to choose a set of focal species for the Chatham Green Project and need your help! The Chatham Green Project is about balancing the 21st century needs of farming, nature and people and so part of what we do is to try and create the best habitats we can across the farm. [...]
On the 19th April, Wilderness Foundation staff led a MARISCO workshop with Writtle College's Level 3 Animal Management students. The students were asked to put themselves in the shoes of farmers, house builders, local residents, environmental activists, fishermen and rambling groups in a multi-stakeholder threat analysis workshop based on the CMP Open Standards principles. Conflicts [...]
On the 17th April, pupils from Monks Eleigh CEVC Primary School visited an old hay meadow owned by Strutt & Parker (Farms) and transformed it into an exciting new apple orchard. The new orchard boasts 12 local heritage varieties: Catherine Clopton Red Honey Pippin Lady Henniker Maxton Old Blake Red Millers Seedling Suffolk Pink St. [...]
On the 16th April, the Wilderness Foundation visited Ford End Primary School to teach their pupils about the 7 'Leave No Trace' principles. The whole school took part in an interactive assembly where they were introduced to the 7 principles and asked to help apply them to various situations. Later on in the day, one [...]
On the 27th February, the whole of Tiptree Heath Primary School visited the Chatham Green Project site as part of the Diamond Jubilee Woods project! Arriving on two double-decker buses and a coach, 170 students and around 30 teachers, parents and support staff made there way over to our plantation and enjoyed a morning of [...]
The Wilderness Foundation UK and Strutt & Parker Farms hosted its last community tree planting day this weekend. Over 1000 trees were planted in the most successful tree planting day ever with people turning up all day long despite the severe weather. Around 70 people turned up, with a mix of ages and abilities, despite [...]
Over 200 students from both Otley College in Suffolk and Writtle College in Essex have participated in the Diamond Jubilee Woods project this winter. During this winter, 150 Animal Care and Countryside (FE) students from Writtle College braved the cold to plant around 2,000 trees at the Chatham Green Project. During their visit they participated [...]
Local Explorer Scouts returned to the Chatham Green Project on the 9th February to help plant some more trees and to experience our Mongolian Yurt. Later this year, the group will be taking a trip over to Mongolia and will spend two nights sleeping inside a yurt similar to ours. During the tea break we [...]
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal visited the Chatham Green Project to plant a tree and open our new Diamond Jubilee wood
During one of the hedgerow surveys I came across an Ash tree with a very old (non-biodegradable!) tree guard flat against the trunk. I estimated that the tree was about 30 or so years old and seemed to be in good condition. It was part of a very small plantation opposite Hyde Hall. I've yet [...]
Luke Baker is raising money for his Tall Ships Race in July 2013. He will be racing from Helsinki to Chatham Docks aboard the Morning Star of Revelation - a 62ft gaff ketch yacht. At the time this video was made, he had planted 150 trees and plans to plant even more in the coming [...]
Roger Tabor - TV presenter, cat expert and chairman of the British Naturalists' Association visited the 'Chatham Green Project' on the 31st December 2012 to contribute to our new Diamond Jubilee Wood. Roger met with staff from the Wilderness Foundation UK's 'Chatham Green Project' and together they planted 15 Small-leaved Lime (Tilia cordata). Roger was [...]
Over the last couple of weeks we have slowly built our traditional Mongolian Yurt. We secured planning permission for the structure several weeks back but had to wait until the weather was in our favour and plenty of helping hands were available. Nature doesn't listen to human plans so we ended up completing the yurt [...]
Today 4 members of staff from Epping Forest Woodland Burial Park visited The Chatham Green Project to help plant our Diamond Jubilee wood.
Over 1200 trees were planted this past weekend when the Wilderness Foundation UK and Strutt & Parker Farms hosted the first of many community tree planting days to celebrate the creation of Her Majesty The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Wood on their site in Chatham Green. Around 80 people attended with visitors coming from as far [...]