Bulworthy Project

15/10/2026

Some friends came over at the weekend, played with the toys and started to build us a shelter for the sawmill.

01/10/2026

This is a first for us. We visited a woodland today with the owner to discuss writing a woodland management plan and he showed us this explosives store from when it was quarried.

23/09/2026

Fluted bird's nest fungi are beautiful, but as they're less than 1 cm wide, they're easy to miss.

23/09/2026

These fluted bird's nest fungi are beautiful, but less than a centimeter wide, so easy to miss.

19/09/2026

Always lovely to see!

17/09/2026

This is filling up fast. If you're interested, email Nick

17/09/2026

Wages haven't risen in line with the cost of living and it's hard for contractors to know what they should be charging. We hope this collaboration with the Landworkers' Alliance helps contractors to work out a fair rate of pay.

At the annual meeting of Landworker’s Alliance forestry members, known as the 'Woody Gathering', the question was raised: What is a fair rate of pay for self-employed contractors? 🤔

Unlike employees, there is no minimum wage for self-employed contractors and they don’t get many of the benefits employees are legally entitled to. The resulting discussion showed that many forestry workers are receiving below the minimum wage once this has been taken into account.

Our Forestry Sector members at have created some handy resources to support self-employed contractors, and gather more data on the issue:

🧮 A spreadsheet which allows you to enter your details, including your day rate, and see how this compares to an employed wage.
📃 A questionnaire to gather data on rates of pay across the sector.

If you're a self-employed contractor working in forestry, woodland management or woodland conservation, we encourage you to access these resources on the Bulworthy Project website: bulworthy.uk/payrates

📷 Taken from the 'We are the Woody Branch' video by

02/09/2026

Volunteer Days October, November 2026
Volunteer days are a great way to connect with the fantastic habitats all around us and an opportunity to play a real part in making Devon’s wildlife more resilient.

24th of October
We’ll be planting 1,000 Devil’s bit scabious plants on Outer Knowstone Moor to expand and improve the habitat for an existing colony of marsh fritillary butterflies. Devil’s bit scabious is the food-plant for marsh fritillary butterflies and is therefore vital
to their survival. Last year we planted Devil’s bit scabious on Higher Comfort Nature Reserve which is adjacent to Outer Knowstone Moor. Our intention is to create a corridor of habitat which allows marsh fritillaries to colonise Higher Comfort Nature
Reserve.

28th of November
We’ll be carrying out forestry work at Higher Comfort Nature Reserve. We want to transform the wooded areas into a more open structured woodland and improve them for biodiversity. We’ll be pruning and thinning out the trees and stacking deadwood to
create habitat piles.
email us at [email protected] for more details.

22/06/2026

It's an exciting time to be working in natural flood management. People are seeing the effect climate change is having and looking for solutions. Natural flood management is widely recognised as a way to mitigate some of the flooding issues.
At the same time, beavers are recolonising our waterways and carrying out natural flood managment alongside us. Part of our job is to facilitate them in doing so.