Craft Wood is based in the heart of a beautiful 12 hectare woodland in South Wingfield, Amber Valley, Derbyshire.

Our aim is to increase and improve the biodiversity of a working woodland. To date we have created a new glade and a hazel and sweet chestnut coppice - using a more traditional hands on approach to forest management.

The woodland is a mixed conifer/deciduous planting mainly consisting of Corsican Pines and also Larch (a wonderful building wood) with a degree of natural regeneration – including ash, birch, holly, sycamore and beech. It was planted as a part of a land restoration scheme.

There are seasonal wet areas which have an increasingly important role in slowing down the water cycle.

The woods contain a valuable open grass habitat that serves as a haven for butterflies, day time moths and dragon flies in the summer months. Craft Wood is host to a national butterfly conservation survey transect.

Buzzards. frogs, toads, wood mice, shrews, bats, weasels, willow warblers, jays, foxes, deer, stoats and shaggy ink caps are among some of the wildlife seen to date.