[Tree-project-organise] Minutes of Community Tree Project Meeting January 4th 2014

[Ian Cavaliere]

I'm not suprised at All he acted like that, not your fault. think he's nob
myself. woodland owner guy id cool though. i did my hand in with a chainsaw
so off work for a bit!!!

keen to do something productive soon, just need a little time off first!


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 12:32 PM, avery howell <averyhowell at hotmail.com>wrote:

> Action points.
>
> so by way of an update on the action points, from my side.
>
> After the meeting i did ring harvey to discuss the matters we had
> discussed (helping to build a barn which we could jointly use).And to
> organise Lenny and myself to go view the site and materials. Perhaps it was
> a bit hasty, as i was all fired up from our constructive meeting and maybe
> dove in a bit bull-headed ,trying to get something moving while it was
> still hot!
> It didnt go so well.
> He was in the middle of bathing his kid so i should have let it go.
> however he seemed keen to talk. I told him there were a few volunteers we
> could muster and we just wanted to help him build and had discussed some
> ideas. From the start i got the feeling he was digging his feet in and
> shutting me off at every suggestion. I guess he must have felt a bit like
> his project was getting taken over or something because he was absolutely
> determined to ignore any input i tried to give, i got a bit hot headed and
> said something like "if we volunteer our time and energy do we get no say
> in the plans?" and the phone went dead. So he either dropped the phone in
> the bath....or took my question as too pushy.
> I havnt followed it up. I did get the feeling that it was his way or the
> highway and sort of lost interest. I am too busy with my own life for that.
> Not to say it is a dead end just that maybe someone else will have to
> start again.And actually I am too busy in the next 6 weeks to waste days on
> a dead end.
>
> As for Marion I wrote a very nice e-mail (from my phone-which sometimes
> mis sends) and have had no reply. I was trying to get a foot in the door
> for spence as i know the woodland burial is something they are both
> currently considering. Having had no reply i am not sure if that is a
> polite "no" or something else. I will call her at some point when both
> spence and i are less busy.
> I still think Marion and Preston Park would be a good small scale starting
> point.
>
> On a more productive point, I went back to meet Nick (landowner or harveys
> leased area) and introduced someone from my workshop who bought some oak
> planks for a commission and am getting to knoe him a bit. Whilst waiting
> for him we were introduced to Nick (WEston?) who wrote a book about living
> in a treehouse and runs a foraging school from nicks wood.He was about to
> start skinning a deer with a group from London, so i was brief but he wants
> to build a treehouse for the foraging school and i said id be happy lend a
> day or two or maybe more. Anyone interested?
> It seems Nick is keen to use his wood for good.
> Avery
>
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> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:07:55 -0800
> From: abigailgibbs at yahoo.com
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> Subject: Re: [Tree-project-organise] Minutes of Community Tree Project
> Meeting January 4th 2014
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> Anyone up for a seedy Sunday! I'll be there if you fancy a mooch round for
> potential ctp partners etc x
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> * From: * Darren <mail at vegburner.co.uk>;
> * To: * CTP <tree-project-organise at lists.ourproject.org>;
> * Subject: * [Tree-project-organise] Minutes of Community Tree Project
> Meeting January 4th 2014
> * Sent: * Fri, Jan 10, 2014 6:14:33 PM
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> *Action points - *Avery and Lenny go look at Nicks woods in Lewis *Avery
> price up screws etc. for barn building *Spence and Avery to talk to Marion
> about her site near Preston Park *Draft a letter to send to landowners (low
> priority??) Letter** to landowners*
> *Woodland Burials*
> *Structure in Harveys/Nicks woodland*
> *Preston Park woods*
>
> * Rapoports woodland **Shop space in Lewis High Street*
>
> *Letter** to landowners*
> It would be good to draft a letter that could be given to land owners
> stating our ideas and that we are looking at land.
> There was some discussion about whether this is necessary right now as we
> have 3 sites where it looks like we may be able to do some stuff.
> There was some discussion about the best way to approach land owners.
> Purely as a forestry enterprise wanting access to woodland for
> timber/firewood or as a social project - is this going to be scary for land
> owners?
>
> *Woodland Burials*
> Spence has been working on a proposal for a woodland burial service which
> would provide a complete service for people who are recently bereaved.  His
> research has showed that there is a strong business case and that existing
> services are somewhat lacking in their sensitivity.
>
> *Structure in Harveys/Nicks woodland*
> Harvey has asked if we would like to build a structure (barn?) with him in
> the woods that he operates near Barcombe.
> We decided this would be a nice thing to do.  We can expect to have use of
> the structure and could build something simple with a few days work. One to
> cut the poles in the woods, one to erect the structure, one to do the roof.
> *Action points -*
> * *Avery and Lenny go look at the woods *
> *for suitable timber/site ** *Avery price up screws etc. for the barn
> building*
>
> *Preston Park woods*
> Marion (the owner) has been away quite a bit but should be back now.
> Spences' ideas should be of interest as she considered having some burials
> on there a good way to protect the site from developers.  We had a look at
> land registry maps and discussed the fact that the relatively small space
> available is going to limit burials and/or other activities there.
> *Action point*
> *- ** *Spence and Avery to talk to Marion about her site *
>
>
> *Rapoports woodland *We have the potential to get some long ash poles and
> a long spruce pole from a woodland near Gatwick.  Any interest??
>
> *Shop space in Lewis High Street*
> Avery has been exploring paying for a bit of wall space in a new garden
> centre/shop on Lewis High Street where we could promote the project.
>
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