{"id":2981,"date":"2025-08-18T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/08\/our-tiny-woodland-our-first-year-owning-a-woodland\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:30:29","slug":"our-tiny-woodland-our-first-year-owning-a-woodland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/2025\/08\/our-tiny-woodland-our-first-year-owning-a-woodland\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Tiny Woodland: our first year owning a woodland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this film by Oliver Crossland, we meet artist, author and poet Rachel Coman and her husband Dan. Rachel talks about her experience of owning a woodland, from the process of buying her woodland from woodlands.co.uk, funding and woodland management skills she's learnt in her first year, through to her sense of well-being and feeling of responsibility to care for the woodland.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel explains how to ring-bark (or girdle) a tree to create deadwood for a wildlife habitat. She also demonstrates the process of using a scythe to maintain woodland rides.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel is documenting everything she does and learns in her woodland on Instagram and Facebook:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ourtinywoodlanduk?igsh=bmV5Ymp0ejJhcW41<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/1AgxXAovki\/<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about buying your own woodland? Then have a look at these beautiful woodlands and tree planting land: https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this film by Oliver Crossland, we meet artist, author and poet Rachel Coman and her husband Dan. Rachel talks about her experience of owning a woodland, from the process of buying her woodland from woodlands.co.uk, funding and woodland management skills she&#8217;s learnt in her first year, through to her sense of well-being and feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodlands.co.uk\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}