Exciting news! The next batch of 400 trees destined for the woods will soon be on their way! Thanks to the Woodland Trust and their partners. Keep your eyes peeled for some tree planting opportunities!
Last night despite the appalling weather the 6th Tonbridge Scouts were cooking at the woods. Each patrol was given £5 to create a hearty stew for all of its members, (allowing for allergies and preferences). The scouts were provided with basic cooking equipment, including a...
The management team took a break from the woods to visit the escape room in Tunbridge Wells.
‘The Cartwood Criminals’ escaped with only 50 mins on the clock. ⏰
‘This group of Escape Room Enthusiasts needed only one...
Last night the Central Explorer Unit visited the woods for an evening of cooking. The young people created sweet and savoury calzones, on griddles over fires. They were very tasty!
If your group/ section visits the woods we would love to...
If you go down to the woods today........... you would have found the team starting a new project! But what have we been up to? Can you guess what we are constructing?
New trees update- looking good, the ones across the clearing are well out of their protective tubes, those in more shady areas are a bit behind, and not quite out of their “tubes”. We gave them a top up of wood chip to help retain...
Here is a ring from the base of the dead pine, the timber should be a light brown colour right across, with a dark brown edge (cambium). At the centre of the ring, are 5 dark circles, this is the pith, surrounded by the heartwood...
Unfortunately one of the pines died at the woods, we normally like to leave standing deadwood because it’s great for invertebrates, but with the tree being positioned at the main cross roads of two tracks we decided to remove it for safety reasons. Better to...
Maintenance day at the woods yesterday, it’s amazing how quickly the bracken grows in the clearing! It was only a couple of weeks ago that we cut it last!
We saw this great idea for hammocks at Gilwell 24. There are some lovely big Hemlocks in the new clearing, anybody fancy doing this with their young people?
Here is a short video of the top clearing, currently the best place in the woods to stick up a few tents. Lots of groups have used the woods for weekend camps, can you see your young people here? Perhaps a back to basics or...
The woods management team were really pleased to invite the previous owners Diana and Robin back to the woods last night for a catch up and a bbq. Diana amongst her many former roles in scouting was a leader at low Weald explorers, and we...
The central explorers were up at the woods last night, playing wide games.
The main activity was a domination type game, where the young people were split in half (reds and blues). They each had a life and had to steal an opponents...
So recently we have posted quite a bit about the plants, vegetation and flowers at the woods, well it’s about time we mentioned some animals! Last night there seemed to be lots of frogs about, both in the new clearing and old, varying in size...
The woods are being taken over by bracken, so we spent the afternoon cutting back the veg along the tracks and clearings then mowing the top clearing. We also cleared veg from around the new trees, so as to give them the best chance possible...
If anybody is firelighting with their yp in the woods soon, there is a box of cardboard in the communal store, that we would be grateful if it was to vanish. Thanks! The code for the store is on the key ring!
