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On Saturday 9th of March Living Woods North East hosted a tree planting in Washingwell Woods in Gateshead with members of Newcastle’s Conversation Group, many of Read more

Coppicing with Students & Willow Cutting with Volunteers With Mark Shipperlee joining as a director we now have a new facet to our work – not Read more

Did you know that many trees do not produce seed every year – and years of abundant seed are often known as “mast years”…   …originally Read more

On Saturday 23rd of February, we hosted another open invite community tree planting day beside the river Derwent in Blackhall Mill. Sixteen volunteers joined us throughout Read more

We welcome Mark Shipperlee as a new, fourth, director of Living Woods North East. Mark brings the experience of running small organisations, having established and run Read more

Are you one of these lucky people that has too many tree seedlings growing in their garden, and you end up weeding them out every year? Read more

In Autumn 2018, Living Woods North East was contracted to carry out several consultation events to gather thoughts and feedback from local communities for two new Read more

Oaks are wonderful, majestic trees, enlivening the soul and igniting the imagination. They can live for more than a thousand years and support more wildlife than Read more

Living Woods director Andy Gray recently spent a day helping children and staff at Wark Primary School to establish a food forest garden. The apple trees Read more

Thanks to all you wonderful volunteers who helped us plant all these trees with the excellent people from Gibside Community Farm. What a great day! Our Read more