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Natasha
Twigg Well
what an action packed nine months it’s been! Time seems to have
flown and yet I feel as though I’ve been in Bodfari
Charcoal for quite some time. How many courses I‘ve done
I don’t know but I‘ve been on a fair few, learnt a heck of a lot
not all sunk in yet but hopefully it all been noted down in my
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portfolio somewhere (!!!) Rod Waterfield’s business, Bodfari Charcoal
is just as hectic. We’ve been busy with all the usual stuff such
as charcoal making and maintenance of local school grounds, hedge
planting, playground construction, landscaping, fencing, growing
trees, planting trees and of course felling them.
All the courses I’ve been on have been both enjoyable and informative. I am becoming more familiar with the workings of small business form work scheduling, quotes, designing, supervising, attending meetings and needing inexhaustible amounts of energy. These are only a small part of running a business but hopefully by the end of my three years I’ll have what it takes.
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James
Mitchell
is from Kendal, South Cumbria. James started working with Maurice
Pyle in September 2003 felling trees, producing firewood and charcoal,
he completed a number of formal training courses including use
of a chainsaw, ATV handling, first-aid, hedge-laying, willow basket
making, pole lathe turning, wooden bowls |
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hurdle making. In June 2004 he set off to Slovakiafor 5 weeks
to work on a number of green wood working prospects, then returned
to Kendal to work with coppice craftsman, Ian Taylor.
Early in December 04 James had his first experience of teaching on his own course 'Christmas Crafts'. Six students were given tuition in the making of Rustic Reindeer, wreath blanks, willowstars and gypsy roses. |
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