The Black Barn opened its doors to welcome the first of Soil Association’s New Organic Entrepreneurs to Woodoaks Farm on Friday.

Waking up this morning filled with pride for our incredible volunteers and farm ranger, Steve Dutch, who were absolute superstars on BBC1’s Countryfile last night!

We are so glad to be having a spell of sunshiny weather! Doesn’t it lift the spirits? Spring is on it’s way that’s for sure.

Woodoaks is back on BBC1’s Countryfile this weekend. Tune in this Sunday 9th March at 5.15pm. The farm will feature once again as they follow our ranger Steve Dutch coppicing the edge of Ladywalk Woods alongside Chiltern Rangers CIC and our volunteer team.

Last week we kicked off the creation of our Woodland Shelter Belt. It was all hands on deck as 60 community volunteers planted 500 trees with stakes, guards and woodchip in place. Those trees are good to grow!

Over the weekend a brilliant group of Architecture students from EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, travelled to Woodoaks to carry out site investigations for their design projects taking part in a lime rendering workshop.

Exploring collaborative ways to build strong food partnerships.

Christchurch Primary School Chorleywood joined us on the farm to create 29 bird boxes. Busy children, volunteers and teachers put together 174 pieces of reclaimed wood, lovingly cut & prepped by education volunteer Eco Ted.

This week we finished our 6 week pilot programme with the fantastic Mission EmployAble interns. It was all hands on deck to respond to the toll the recent winds took on the farm.