Title: Bishop's WWaltham carnival and show
Location: priory park – Bishop's Waltham
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Description: a great fund raiser for local caused run by the Rotary Club Of Bishops Waltham this will be the second year that Three Copse Woodland Products as supported this event
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 09-06-2012
End Time: 17:00

Title: The Meon Springs Country Experience Day 2012
Location: Meon Springs
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Description: “As well as things to watch and learn, there are plenty of activities in which you can participate such as fishing and shooting with tuition, archery and air rifles.”

we will again be attending the Meon Springs countryside day as part of Hampshire Coppice Craftsmens’ Group
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2012-04-15
End Time: 16:00

Winter – Firewood, forwarders and coppice coupes

Well it’s been a while since we posted a blog on the site so we thought it was time to tell you what we have been up to since the end of the show season.

We have of course still been selling at both Winchester and the former Bishop's Waltham Farmer's Market, but most of our time has been spent in the woods coppicing and producing firewood.

It has been a good year for us on the firewood front with sales up to December up on previous years despite the warmer weather we have had this winter. For the past 4 years it seems that more and more people have been opening up chimneys and having stoves installed.

In the 10 years since we started working in the woods we have mainly been carrying out small scale coppicing in areas with restricted access. With this in mind we bought a compact tractor and 1 ½ tonne forwarder from Riko UK based at Bordon. This unit has been and still remains a wonderful tool within the coppice, however in the past 3 years we have been cutting much larger timber in neighbouring woodland. We have now taken delivery, again from Riko UK, of a brand new, British built JMS forwarder trailer and Crane. With a 7 tonne capacity this means we can move larger amounts of timber in one go.

This year we are cutting two areas of coppice, one in the north of the wood and one in the southern half. Both areas are very overstood. One area is predominately ash (good firewood) and hazel and the other hazel with standards of oak.

Due to the lack of cutting both areas are going to take several cycles (7-20 years) to recover and improve. We know from talking to some of the older Hampshire Coppice Craftsmens group members that the last time that most of it was cut was 1964.

Title: Hampshire Farmers’ Market – Winchester
Location: Middle Brook Street Car park – Winchester
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2012-05-27
End Time: 14:00

Title: Hampshire Farmers' Market – Alton
Location: The High Street, Alton
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 12-05-2012
End Time: 14:00

Title: Hampshire Farmers’ Market – Winchester
Location: Middle Brook Street Car park – Winchester
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2012-04-29
End Time: 14:00

Title: Hampshire Farmers’ Market – Alton
Location: The High Street, Alton
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2012-04-07
End Time: 14:00

Title: Hampshire Farmers’ Market – Winchester
Location: Middle Brook Street Car park – Winchester
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2012-03-25
End Time: 14:00

Title: Hampshire Farmers' Market – Alton
Location: The High Street, Alton
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 10-03-2012
End Time: 14:00

Title: Hampshire Farmers' Market – Winchester
Location: Middle Brook Street Car park – Winchester
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 26-02-2012
End Time: 14:00