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Manor Farm: how trees can help your farm business to thrive

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Cattows Farm: trees, people, nature and business can thrive together

Jane walks her farm

Grangewood: how trees and management can benefit your land

Aardman

Audiences thrilled and inspired as Timber Festival returns to the National Forest

Connected Landscape

Funding announced for an ambitious project to create and connect woodlands across the midlands

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Minorca

Minorca Woods: a pathway to positive change

“Against a backdrop of biodiversity loss and issues associated with climate change, the National Forest, and this site as a prime example, offers us an opportunity to all get involved and make a difference. With a change of will and change of attitude in society, we really...

Connected Landscape

Funding announced for an ambitious project to create and connect woodlands across the midlands

Funding for the development of an ambitious project to create and connect our woodlands across the Midlands region has been announced, with the aim of increasing habitats for wildlife, improving wellbeing for communities and growing more low carbon jobs.

Aardman

Audiences thrilled and inspired as Timber Festival returns to the National Forest

Highlights from this year included headliners, The Go! Team, who bought their fusion sounds and archaic beats to the Field Notes stage, inspiring talks from author Raynor Winn and Coronation Street actor Shobna Gulati, plus colourful dance performances from Sonia Sabri’s...

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The Queer Retangled: How nature can be therapeutic for the LGBT+ community

Many a time, I’ve been sat at a pub, or in the garden of a gathering and heard phrases such as ‘he’s one of those outdoorsy people’, ‘why would you want to go out into the stinky countryside?’, ‘they’re animals, they don’t have brains like ours’, ‘I tried going to the...

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Arts Grant funded project celebrates the humble hedgerows of the National Forest

Through this year’s National Forest Arts Grants, we’ve been delighted to support Charnwood-based artist Ruth Singer to create Blossom and Thorn, a project exploring the extraordinary and humble hedgerows of the National Forest.