Three years ago, I was reading “Barn Club – A Tale of Forgotten Elm Trees, Traditional Craft and Community Spirit” by Robert Somerville, as some sort of preparation for a new chapter in my career […]
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Branching out: A Tree Pageant
Each year, the Belgian Tree of the Year is elected. This is not necessarily the most beautiful or oldest tree, but it is a tree with a special story. Actually ‘pageant’ might not be the […]
Geography of Fairytales: Why are the Germanic stories in forests?
According to Sara Maitland, whose fantastic book ‘From the Forest: a Search for the Hidden Roots of our Fairy Tales’, fairy tales are ‘site specific’. A geographer, I try to make sense of the place […]
Stories from the Wood Wide Web 