Bodger's Gazette

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GreenWood trains artisans to make high-quality wood products, adding value to forest resources and creating incentives to protect biodiversity.  Very active in South America training artisans,  building businesses and saving forests.

www.greenwoodwoman.blogspot.com - Greenwood Woman written by Elizabeth Cadd is an amusing collection of greenwood related articles charting her experiences as volunteer at Clissett Wood and other forays into greenwood work

www.benorford.com Ben Orford is a consumate wood turner, toolmaker and blacksmith. Take a look at his handmade knives and tools. He also runs courses in Herefordshire with his wife Loise.

www.coppiceapprentice.org.uk The Bill Hogarth MBE Memorial Apprenticeship Trust (BHMAT) was set up in February 2000 in order to ensure that the coppicing skills of Bill Hogarth are recognised for their full worth and their continuity secured by setting up a broad based apprenticeship scheme. We are a group of concerned individuals involved in various ways in the coppice industry. Our focus is the North of England although we have links to other regions. We achieved charitable status in 2001.

www.scottishgreenwoodworkers.co.uk
Sid Wright and Ian Glendinning have been green woodworkering, mainly using pole lathes,in the Argyll area for more than 13 years. During this time they have worked with groups from Cowal Resource Centre, Argyll & Bute Hospital and several other groups.

Hilton Handcraft of the Ozarks is a family run and operated business located deep in the heart of the Missouri & Arkansas Ozarks hill country.

The Tree Org UK is a wonderful site for finding out about trees and how to get involved in tree related activities. Anna styles herself as "Webmother", which seems to some up her approach to how the site is created, nurtured and growing.

The Hampshire Coppice Craftsmens Group
seeks to support the work of coppice, underwood and associated craftsmen in Hampshire as well as raising awareness of the benefits and opportunities they provide for woodlands and their wildlife, the landscape, rural employment and sustainable development.

The Woodcraft School based in Midhurst West Sussex

The Urban Bodger has a new and interesting web site

The Woodland Trust Community Woodland website

Jack Beckett runs Woodland Organics, a Dorset based company specialising in woodland skills and products.

The Cashel Project. This is dedicated to forestry regeneration and restoration in Scotland.

Peter Wood's site www.finewindsorchairs.co.uk

Wessex Coppice Group raise the profile of the coppicing industry.

Sussex and Surrey Coppice Group

Edward Brun offering his coppice products

Tom Kettie's page on medieval stools and lathes.

Ted Rushworth's site has some nice pictures and he is obviously a productive bodger.

A sustainable woodland project including various greenwood working activities such as the use of a pole lathe.

Woodland Heritage Trust is a non profit organisation dedicated to sustainable woodland. Plenty of links to other sites from this one.

The Small Woods Association for those who would like to find out about owning woods and other related subjects.

Nichael Cramer An American member of APT, he has a passion for vintage hand tools.

Jon Warnes Retailer of woodworking tools and books.

Mog makes bodhran or Irish frame drums. He also teaches how to make them from his base in Norfolk (UK)