Archive: July 2023
Ash from Bathurst estate
June 8, 2023
Where’s this wood from? This amazing ash is from the Bathurst estate, in Gloucestershire. The Bathurst estate is one of the country’s oldest privately owned parks. It was originally laid out in the 1700s as a deer park. In the First World War it became a military camp. It’s now open to the public and contains a number of woo...
MD, Tom Barnes, brings home the Confor Changing Attitudes Award
March 1, 2023
We’re delighted that Tom Barnes, our MD, has been presented with the Confor Changing Attitudes Award. This award recognises an individual, business or organisation that’s promoting the forestry and wood sector in a positive, impactful way. Tom was presented with the award by Trudy Harrison MP, the Minster for Natural Environment and...
Seven success stories from our 1% Woodland Tax funding in 2022.
December 22, 2022
In 2022, we decided to donate at least 1% of our turnover to support people and projects that are helping our local woodlands. We called it the 1% Woodland Tax. Over the course of the year, we’ve had the pleasure of supporting a whole collection of projects. All very different, but all with the same aim: to improve local woodlands an...
The big reveal: we explain the annual gamble of sawing oak logs
November 10, 2022
After a year of accumulating an impressive stack of oak ‘butts’ (no sniggering), the saws are sharp, the weather has cooled and we’re ready to start sawing some absolutely amazing oak logs. This is one of our favourite times of the year, but the sawing season can also be a bit of a lottery. Because, as Forrest Gump said: “y...
Sycamore success stories at Future Trees Trust
November 8, 2022
Since 2019 Vastern Timber has supported the Future Trees Trust in their work to help future forests thrive. The FTT is the only UK charity working to improve broadleaved trees by conventional selective breeding. Their researchers work to ensure that the next generation of broadleaved trees will deliver all the environmental, social and ec...
Wood Back Stories: Beautiful oak and ash from Longleat Forest
September 13, 2022
Where’s this wood from? These amazing logs are from Longleat Forest, in Wiltshire. Longleat has over 4000 acres of commercial continuous cover forestry. This incredible place is a large, ancient, broadleaved woodland with a high forest structure (including tall, mature trees), which is unique to the South West of Britain. [cap...
