Wesley Smith of BBC Radio Oxford visited the OneOak exhibition at the University of Oxford Botanic Garden (OBG) earlier this week.  He enjoyed looking around the exhibits and talking with our CEO Gabriel Hemery and volunteer curator Jane King.  He also spoke with Emma Williams from OBG.

You can listen to the programme this Sunday 26th June between 1300-1330.  We understand that there will be two separate features. If you miss it or live outside of the area you can listen again online for one week only.

The OneOak exhibition is open until 4th July at OBG.  After a short break, during which we are holding a major exhibition at Art in Action (more of which soon), the exhibition returns to OBG for the whole of August.

The planting of a new oak forest in our OneOak project was featured in the Oxford Mail, on Tuesday 1st February. Oxfordshire’s children celebrate life of a mighty oak.

Singing around the OneOak sculpture. Photo Angus Beaton

One hundred guests, including children from our partner primary schools, returned to the site where the OneOak tree was felled one year ago.  They came to celebrate the life of the OneOak tree and to plant a new generation of oak trees.

We unveiled a stunning sculpture by Simon Clements, sang tree planting ‘shanties’ written by musician Sarah Morgan, and planted trees with the support of Nicholson Nurseries.  The sculpture was unveiled by His Grace the Duke of Marlborough today, and into the future the new forest will be tended by his expert foresters.

Forty school children came today, five representing each of the classes, while their classmates will all be coming to the site over coming days to plant their own trees: reaching a total of 250 new oak trees by the end of the week.

OneOak tree planting. Photo Angus Beaton

You can hear a report on the day on BBC Radio Oxford at 1650 today, and see the day in pictures on BBC1 Oxford News today at 1830.  Missed it?  Click here to watch the BBC film

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An article about the research activities undertaken in our OneOak project has been published in the Chartered Forester magazine.

Our CEO Gabriel Hemery co-wrote the article with James Morison, from the Centre for Forests and Climate Change at Forest Research, to tell the extraordinary scientific stories behind what has become one the most studied trees in Britain.  They explain the tree measuring, laser scanning, volume and weight work, the calculation of embodied carbon, dendrochronology studies, and wood footprinting.

We are very grateful to Institute of Chartered Foresters for allowing us to provide the article as a free download.

OneOak is featured in a four page spread in the current issue of Living Woods magazine.

The main article was written by our CEO Gabriel Hemery, with editorial stories featuring two of our OneOak partners: green woodworker Martin Damen, and Nick Bainbridge the forester at Blenheim Palace.