Our Tiny Woodland: our first year owning a woodland
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In this film by Oliver Crossland, we meet artist, author and poet Rachel Coman and her husband Dan. Rachel talks about her experience of owning a woodland, from the process of buying her woodland from woodlands.co.uk, funding and woodland management skills she's learnt in her first year, through to her sense of well-being and feeling of responsibility to care for the woodland.
Rachel explains how to ring-bark (or girdle) a tree to create deadwood for a wildlife habitat. She also demonstrates the process of using a scythe to maintain woodland rides.
Rachel is documenting everything she does and learns in her woodland on Instagram and Facebook:
https://www.instagram.com/ourtinywoodlanduk?igsh=bmV5Ymp0ejJhcW41
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AgxXAovki/
Thinking about buying your own woodland? Then have a look at these beautiful woodlands and tree planting land: https://www.woodlands.co.uk/
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Thank you, this is a really lovely, grounded, sensitive and informative film. Very inspirational. Just what I needed.
Congratulations on your tiny woodland acquisition and lifestyle choice. My sweetheart and I purchased 80 (mostly) wooded acres in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. The major difference between your property and ours is that we live on the property and due to the size of trees, and meadows, we must use battery-electric power tools, but, never petrol fuel powered equipment. None of our neighbours, (the closest is over 1/4 mile away) can't hear me working from more than a few yards outside of my work zone, until I fell a tree.
I agree wholeheartedly about the calming effect of walking/standing still in the deeper woods, which is better than any therapist and much less expensive.
I enjoyed seeing your enthusiasm and can recall ours, from our first year in 2013.
Cheers! from a fellow small-woodlands owner-manager in the Oregon Country.
That's Really great
I hope I can own a woodland oneday
A lovely film, one day I hope to do this, but if not I am happy that people as yourselves are looking after the future, and not the usual privileged few.
@@OurTinyWoodlandUK unfortunately land ownership legalities for anacondas is a complicated subject here in Malaysia
Ok it wouldn't really be a woodland, but that is a non-sequiter
So good! Really beautifully filmed, and the peace is cleansing! Xx
@@OurTinyWoodlandUK Dreamy yes, but a LOT of work!! Never worked harder in my 60+ years, but never been happier.
Cheers!
Dreaming of owning a woodland, living and working in it. …peaceful and happy.
@bosse641
August 18, 2025