little acorn furniture
Working with the materials available in our surrounding countryside to produce
unique and beautiful things and simultaneously provide value and management
incentives to improve our precious local woodlands. Having graduated with an
Honours Degree in Aerospace Engineering of all things Alasdair eventually found
himself working in South London as an Elevator Engineer. This highly unsuitable
lifestyle resulted in a three year VSO teaching placement in Ghana, where
Alasdair found the inspiration he was looking for and returned to the UK to
study for an MSc. in Environmental Forestry in Bangor, North Wales. After a
brief stint working for the University, and determined never to work indoors
again, Alasdair secured a Woodland Rangers post with the National Trust and
spent the next ten years caring for and working with coastal native woodland and
parkland in Gwynedd and Anglesey. During this time he discovered that
engineering, teaching and a passion for woods and wood work were the ideal
ingredients for his own venture. When the chance arose to move with his young
family to South Devon, Little Acorn Furniture was born. In addition to furniture
making and greenwood courses, Alasdair operates Little Acorn Forestry providing
a range of forestry and conservation services from management planning to tree
felling, planting and invasive species control. This often provides a
sustainable source of local material for Little Acorn Furniture and the two
elements provide an environmentally beneficial service quite literally from tree
to table, or chair or whatever else it is you may require.
