We are lucky to have a large piece of land with our house. We are passionate about maintaining this in a way that minimises our carbon footprint and that provides plenty of habitat for the creatures that we share with.
During the tempest in the Spring of 2010 a large pine tree, which had been leaning precariously across a pathway, finally gave up the ghost and came crashing down. Now it was on the ground we were able to measure it; 35m!
So what happened to the tree? The canopy was cut up and burnt on our bonfire, with the ash used to fertilise our vegetable patch, the bark was stripped off and used as a weed suppressant mulch on the strawberry patch and elsewhere, and the trunk was chopped up into lengths which we are now splitting into logs for our wood fire.
You might think that that was it then, but of course there are other bits of the tree that we haven't mentioned yet. The pine cones were collected with the best ones used as decoration around the house and the slightly munched ones either put on the fire or in a pile in the woods for the pine martens to finish off.
The last section of the tree is the stump, which is far too big for us to try to remove, so we hope to turn it into a natural chair. We don't know how but we are going to give it a try.
You might think that that was it then, but of course there are other bits of the tree that we haven't mentioned yet. The pine cones were collected with the best ones used as decoration around the house and the slightly munched ones either put on the fire or in a pile in the woods for the pine martens to finish off.
The last section of the tree is the stump, which is far too big for us to try to remove, so we hope to turn it into a natural chair. We don't know how but we are going to give it a try.
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