Just finished crafting, sanding and oiling our first major product range of cheese boards, butchers blocks, bowls and assorted kitchen spoons which will be test marketed at “The Bush Inn” Penallt https://thebushpenallt.co.uk/ and Welsh Connections in https://www.facebook.com/welshconnection/
Cyanotype Printing: Pen Y Graig Woodland Flora
The weather conditions were perfect for today’s session, lots of sun and very little wind. After some research and a look into composition and style, we went foraging around Pen Y G, to identify and gather materials for the prints. After some mad scientist moments measuring and mixing our Ferric Ammonium Citrate and Potassium Ferricyanide, […]
Managing the restoration of the 1892 Hazel Coppice
“On a clear sunny Friday in April one of Pen-y-Graig’s “band of brothers” grouped up for a very special day on the east side of the wood helping to manage the restoration of the 1892 Hazel Coppice. Led by Maurice Clother and Alex Arthur our participants went to work practising their new chainsaw drills cutting […]
Creating Primitive tools
Making paintbrushes from the bark of leilandii, sticks of willow and other foraged pieces, creating works and taking inspiration from the Wye Valley and Sitting, Pen-Y-Graig’s wonderful tree! The first step was to forage sticks that felt nice in the hand, in way of handles. As well as two large flat stones, for pounding the […]
Path Building at Pen-y-Graig
The path ,which runs from the centre building at Pen y Graig along thetop of the wooded hillside, was just earth over slippery ground and treeroots. Even in dry summer going was tricky, making it awkward for peopleto contour directly on foot to the other areas of the wood, otherwise ininclement weather and wintertime they […]
Pen-y-Graig Woodland Centre – January 2021
After a temporary closure over the Christmas and New Year period Pen-y-Graig Woodland Centre will be reopening week commencing 11th January 2021 The importance of our work is growing and we have been afforded Welsh Government essential service status under the Public Health Wales (Covid Restrictions 5) Regulations – December 2020 The Pen-y-Graig Centre is […]
