Froe Wood is over fifteen acres of Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland located on the edge of The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. After many years of neglect and poor management, Froe Wood is being brought back into active management with the aim of creating a woodland where coppice, timber, and woodland products can be sustainably harvested in a way that enhances the natural habitats and flora, fauna and fungi.
Froe Wood is dominated by over 150 oak standards which form a high canopy over an understorey of hazel, lime, yew and holly. Alongside the oaks we have mature cherry, birch and ash, as well as small-leaved lime, field maple and wild service tree, and a few Douglas Fir; the canopy is being gradually thinned out to create a more varied structure, and to create open glades and wider rides. The understorey is gradually being brought back into a coppice rotation, producing a variety of sustainable coppice products when each coup is harvested every five to seven years, as well as firewood and timber from the canopy.
The cyclical coppice rotation allows sunlight to reach the woodland floor, increasing ground flora and biodiversity and giving a wide variety of ecological benefits. Over 160 species of flora have been identified in Froe Wood, alongside numerous mosses and lichens, fungi and fauna.
We are acredited by Grown in Britain, an audited scheme for UK woodlands and woodland products that assures that our products are legally felled from sustainably managed UK woodlands https://www.growninbritain.org/.
There is a saying that ‘the wood that pays, is the wood that stays’, but at Froe Wood we believe that there is a greater value beyond pure commercial return, and that sustainable management, often incorporating traditional techniques, can exist in tandem with good conservation and be mutually beneficial for nature and woodsman.
Froe Wood Coppice Products 