Celtic Rainforest Festival in the Elan Valley
We recently took part in the first ever Celtic Rainforest festival in the Elan Valley. Lovely spot right under the magnificent dam! Really great event. We hope to be back
Sensitive and specialist forestry operations
JUNE 2024 : Carnog recently carried out two projects requiring gentle timber extraction on two very inaccessible sites – Pentre Wood in Shropshire for the Woodland Trust, and a slate
Carnog Launches New Website
June 2024 : We are really pleased to launch our new website. We are now mobile friendly! We have updated a lot of the content as well as showing new
‘Working with Horses’ Courses
May and June 2024 : Come and join us on our smallholding in north-east Wales for an Introduction to Working with Horses course. I work full time with my horses
New Carnog Uniform
December 2023 : I treated myself to a new uniform, branded with the brilliant new Carnog logo.
Carnog Team Captured in Charcoal
December 2023 : Artist Sally Duckers produced two new images of the Carnog team which are available as greetings cards and prints. From her designs we are developing a new
Hot Working on Welsh World Heritage Site
September 2023 : We worked in a record 35°C on this challenging site. Ultimate care and dainty hooves were required to ensure that felling and extraction on these old workings
Introduction to Horse Logging
March 2023 : For the eleventh year Carnog Working Horses one day ‘Introduction to Horse Logging’ courses at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) near Machynlleth. The course gave a
Hafod y Cwm
February 2023 : We were working at this small farm woodland site, a larch and beech plantation which was overdue for thinning. It was one of the steepest hills we
January Coppicing
January 2023 : We burnt off any Christmas excess with a hard start to the year, coppicing near the Wrekin. Although the trees were small it was a long, up and
Devon County Show
July 2021 : The Carnog team was invited to the Devon County Show in Exeter. We worked with the Woodland Trust, White Wood Managementand Little Acorn Furniture, to demonstrate the
Coed Cadnant Logging
November/ December 2020 : The horses worked hard with a new team, Kehoe Countryside Services. We helped to clear some ash dieback for the Woodland Trust on a community woodland
Bracken Rolling at The Cliffe, near Shrewsbury
August 2020 : Carnog has been bracken rolling at The Cliffe near Shrewsbury for five years. It is a tough site, but working alongside Shropshire County Council and the local
Inside Out West Midlands
Summer 2019 : Following the filming back in the summer, Carnog featured on the BBC’s Inside Out West Midlands as part of an item about retaining heritage crafts that are
Carnog at Watersmeet
October 2019 : The Carnog Team joined the National Trust’s West Exmoor Rangers for their fun autumn event at Watersmeet, near Lynmouth, Devon on 22nd October. We had a great
Anglesey Horselogging Training
October 2019 : Carnog ran another successful week long Horselogging Training and Woodland Skills Course on Anglesey. It was a unique opportunity to learn practical horselogging, with plenty of hands
Carnog Desk Calendar
December 2018 : We brought together images from our year of horselogging, bracken rolling, demonstrating and training in a small desk calendar. The images include logging in the extreme cold
Anglesey Woodland Festival
September 2018 : The Carnog team was at the Anglesey Woodland Festival, one of North Wales’ favourite woodland events, in 2018 to demonstrate horselogging. The whole Carnog team is also
High Brown Fritillary
June 2018 : Carnog Working Horses went bracken rolling in Heddon Valley, North Devon, high above Hunter’s Inn, to help the North Devon National Trust team in the creation of
APF Exhibition 2018
September 2018 : Carnog was at the APF Exhibition 2018 at Ragley Estate, Alcester, Warwickshire from 20th – 22nd September as part of the British Horse Loggers team at the
Extreme Horselogging
February 2018 : We have spent a couple of weeks in the stunning and extreme climate that is Lake Vyrnwy. As machines could not reach, the horses were called on
Wind-felled Oak
October 2017 : A very satisfying Carnog job was cutting up a very old wind-fallen oak tree not far from our home base. It’s amazing how much timber can come
Exmoor Woodland
October/November 2017 : Barbara, Tyler and Molly spent time working with the National Trust in Devon helping with some thinning, in a beech PAWS site (Barton Wood to remove the
Black Horse Charcoal
Summer 2017 : Since 2017, Carnog has been making Black Horse Charcoal in small batches from hardwood trees, giving a natural, subtle, woody taste to your barbecue. Horse power (of
Molly and Tyler Start Working Together
August 2017 : Molly, the newest member of the Carnog team (above left), had a great start to working alongside Tyler (above right) at the beginning of August. Molly was
Horsedrawn Lawnmowing
June 2016 : When working at the National Trust’s Arlington Court in Devon we had the opportunity to try out horsedrawn mowing. We started out with the Victorian mower, fun
Attingham Uncovered
September 2013 : The Carnog team demonstrated horselogging on 28th and 29th September in Attingham Uncovered at the National Trust’s Attingham Park near Shrewsbury. Part of the Park’s woodland walk
Butterfly boost by bracken bashing
July 2013 : Tyler and Barbara spent a day bashing bracken for the Shropshire Wildlife Trust at the Nant Mawr Nature Reserve. The aim was to give the common dog
Fordhall Organic Farm – Summer Fair 7th July
July 2013 : Fordhall Organic Farm at Tern Hill Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3PS, held a Summer Fair on Sunday 7th July. It was a great day of fun
BHLWMA 2013
May 2013 : For their work at Barlings Barn in Llanbrynmair, Barbara and her two horses were awarded the British Horse Loggers Woodland Management Award for 2013. The award is
Introduction to Horselogging
March 2012 : Carnog Working Horses ran one day courses on horselogging at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) on Saturday 3rd March and then, because of demand, again on
From Logs to Planks
March 2011 : Carnog’s two hard working cobs, Tyler and Billy, pulled a few large Western Red Cedar logs out of the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) woodland, Coed Gwern