Yurtworks

Yurtworks Cornish Yurt Holidays, Handmade Yurts,
Smallholding, Rewilding and Butterfly Conservation

Happy Solstice everyone 🌑🔥
22/12/2024

Happy Solstice everyone 🌑🔥

Lovely day with Lokervya folk .the.ax , and Flo and Rachael, working on the Ash Project peeling poles with drawknife ...
03/11/2024

Lovely day with Lokervya folk .the.ax , and Flo and Rachael, working on the Ash Project peeling poles with drawknife and spokeshave.
We are up to 85 peeled poles now - 15 to go with installation in the woods planned for early May 2025. .

Recent spoons and scoops and an ash box for a loop knife from . More Spoons and other work via the link . ...
16/10/2024

Recent spoons and scoops and an ash box for a loop knife from . More Spoons and other work via the link .

We are still open until the end of the month but it’s that time of year when many yurts start coming down before the har...
04/10/2024

We are still open until the end of the month but it’s that time of year when many yurts start coming down before the harsher weather comes in. We had a beautiful day to take these three down for a customer on the coast.
It’s a special time of year to be in Cornwall, so if you feel like some quiet time with sauna and wood burners blazing DM for details, before the season closes.

Twelve Granite pads for the roundhouse posts to sit on. It’s taken a while to find the stones for the job and all of the...
22/09/2024

Twelve Granite pads for the roundhouse posts to sit on. It’s taken a while to find the stones for the job and all of these took some heft to shift and level up. Thanks to Guy for sticking with it.

Pinhole photographs from the series ‘In the Shadow of the Tree of Life,’ images of Ash trees, with exposures lasting sev...
11/07/2024

Pinhole photographs from the series ‘In the Shadow of the Tree of Life,’ images of Ash trees, with exposures lasting several months and the emulsion partly washed away by the windblown rain.
There is one day left to see some of these alongside other photographers’ work at the exhibition including and and many others.

We have an early July lull in bookings and one or two later slots so we are offering a 20% discount including a free sau...
06/07/2024

We have an early July lull in bookings and one or two later slots so we are offering a 20% discount including a free sauna session on all stays between now and the end of July in any one of our available yurts. See the Yurtworks website for availability or DM for more details or to book.

Lovely Open Day yesterday for the Ash Tree Project with our local Wildlife and Conservation Group and Cornwall Butterfly...
30/06/2024

Lovely Open Day yesterday for the Ash Tree Project with our local Wildlife and Conservation Group and Cornwall Butterfly Conservation and Storytelling with Susan Samm. Big Thankyou to all who came and to Jo Best for the refreshments.
It was the first time the red ash circle was put together and the first time I’ve exhibited any photos in many years. It was good to bring art and nature and storytelling together in a Cornish field.
Thanks to for the lovely pics.

Ready for the Open Day here tomorrow, a small celebration of Ash trees. The Red Ash circle is up, for the first time, t...
28/06/2024

Ready for the Open Day here tomorrow, a small celebration of Ash trees. The Red Ash circle is up, for the first time, the pinhole photos are hanging in the yurt. There will be some assorted spoonware too, storytelling, making story sticks and Nature walks and cake and coffee to raise some money for the local wildlife and Conservation Group.
Hope to see some of you there. From 11- 4 at Sunnybank, St Breward, PL304LP .Very limited parking please park in the village and walk .

Still a way to go - preparing for the Open workshop day here next Saturday. Bringing art and craft and nature and people...
22/06/2024

Still a way to go - preparing for the Open workshop day here next Saturday. Bringing art and craft and nature and people together with making story sticks and telling stories and a nature walk around one of the butterfly brakes. The beginning of an ongoing celebration of Ash Trees.

Totally forgot it was Father’s Day today - Thankyou you to both my daughters for reminding me - spent the morning puttin...
16/06/2024

Totally forgot it was Father’s Day today - Thankyou you to both my daughters for reminding me - spent the morning putting up the yurt for the retreat next weekend. It has lived through different incarnations but when it was first made thirteen years ago the four of us lived in it through a cold wet winter, so it always carries with it memories of a different time.

Thankyou to for selecting photographs from my pinhole series “In the Shadow of the Tree of Life” for their Open Call ex...
13/06/2024

Thankyou to for selecting photographs from my pinhole series “In the Shadow of the Tree of Life” for their Open Call exhibition in July on the theme of Repetition.
Opening night is on the 4th July at Burton and South Derbyshire College, Staffordshire.

Looking forward to our Open Day on the 29th June for an Ash Tree themed day with an exhibition of pinhole photographs, a...
08/06/2024

Looking forward to our Open Day on the 29th June for an Ash Tree themed day with an exhibition of pinhole photographs, and the ongoing Red Ash Project - which involves painting 100 ash trees and stems felled as a consequence of ash die back.
The open day is An opportunity to get involved or come along for some tree talk with story telling, a steam bending demo and cake and coffees. It is free and all ages are welcome.
29th June from 11-4pm
The trees were planted in the year 2000 as a coppice to generate poles for the yurt making business and other greenwood crafts. In 2021 they were hit by ash dieback and we started to look for other ways of using the wood apart from firewood. This project is a celebration of Ash Trees as they slowly disappear from our woods and hedgerows.

Very much looking forward to welcoming for another Women’s Retreat here over midsummer in a couple of weeks. Our big co...
08/06/2024

Very much looking forward to welcoming for another Women’s Retreat here over midsummer in a couple of weeks.
Our big communal yurt and extra bell tents as well as the yurts transforms the Cornish Yurt Holiday site into beautiful set up for small gatherings and retreats.

An Open Workshop with tea and cake - a celebration of Ash Trees with an exhibition of pinhole photographs (of Ash Trees)...
01/06/2024

An Open Workshop with tea and cake - a celebration of Ash Trees with an exhibition of pinhole photographs (of Ash Trees), and the Red Ash Tree project in progress. Welcome to get involved or come along for find out more, - hear about the Ash trees and Ash die back that have inspired this project. More details to follow.

Once they would have been at the forefront of agricultural engineering , now almost 70 years on these tractors and trail...
13/05/2024

Once they would have been at the forefront of agricultural engineering , now almost 70 years on these tractors and trailers have mostly gone the way of the heavy horses before them. I am not a Luddite and welcome life generating change but many aspects of modern farming and the technology that dominates it, separates us step by step from the soil beneath our feet and Something so vital is lost in this process.
At the same time I’m dependent on a neighbouring farmer to drop feed bales off because this little tractor can’t lift them. No easy answers to this.

In the Shadow of the Tree of Life- a pinhole view of an Ash Tree with the iPhone equivalent of the same tree. This serie...
11/05/2024

In the Shadow of the Tree of Life- a pinhole view of an Ash Tree with the iPhone equivalent of the same tree. This series of pinhole pictures is ongoing and celebrates and mourns the fast decline of ash trees along the Camel Valley and beyond.
Pinhole cameras have been around along time and I used them many years ago but my renewed interest is partly inspired by pinhole works of trees and his sunflowers circle planted at Kestle Barton.
I’m going to be posting more art based work on the Wild Circle account to keep it separate from the yurt and yurt holidays side of things. For me it’s all connected but IG algorhythms don’t work like that. Maintaining two accounts is a challenge but I’ll see how it goes.
More pinhole images can be seen on the Wild Circle website and are available to buy via the shop.

Setting up the holiday yurts at this time of year can sometimes feel like a steep hill to climb especially with all th...
09/04/2024

Setting up the holiday yurts at this time of year can sometimes feel like a steep hill to climb especially with all the weather we ve been having, but there are always new additions and changes to keep it all lively. It feels like I’m always saying that this and that was made here in the Yurtworks workshop or by a friend or neighbour, but maybe it needs to be said more - stuff made by hand by people you know from materials on your doorstep brings something special to any experience- a little bit of soul maybe. It’s at the heart of what we do here. This set of drawers from the Ashfield Yurt was made by neighbour Steve and painted here in the workshop with the additional fishing float handles. ThTs not to say that there aren’t a few IKEA accessories in there too …….

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Building a scale model of the yurt inspired roundhouse to get a sense of the proportions and various stages involved. Unlike reciprocal frames this will have an overhead wheel like traditional yurt and ger designs. Progress has been slow so far but we start the main framing work on Monday. #roundhouse #cornishyurtholidays #handmadelife #yurtholidays #yurts #yurtlife #ecoglamping #yurtstays #greenwoodworking #timberframe #sweetchestnut #roundwood #roundwoodtimberframing

Taking the yurts down in the sun a couple of weeks ago. Booking calendar for 2025 is now up on the site- promoting holidays and short breaks often feels uncomfortable in hard times but it’s an important part of the conservation work here . - link in bio. #yurtholidays #yurtstays #cornishyurtholidays #handmade #handmadelife #yurtlife #yurtliving #handmadeyurts #yurts #ecoglamping #naturalholidays #backtonature #greenwood #greenwoodworking

Last three weeks of the season to hunker down around a log fire surrounded by the autumn trees and the sound of the owls calling nearby. #yurtholidays #cornishyurtholidays #handmadelife #yurts #logfires #ecoglamping #sauna #woodlandsauna

It’s hard to believe that Cornish Yurt Holidays has been going for almost 25 years - apart from a couple of Tipi sites - we were maybe the first yurt holiday site to offer low impact, close to nature holidays. We’ve tried to avoid the glamping label as much as possible to offer an authentic handmade stay on the edge of the wilder lands of Bodmin moor, without sacrificing too much by way of comfort. Although there will be one or two exciting changes for next year we will be staying close to our roots. In the meantime there are still two months of this season to enjoy the slowing down towards autumn, with extra wood for the wood burners and a free sauna session to ease the disappointment of a lacklustre summer. #cornishyurtholidays #yurtlife #yurtholidays #handmadelife #definitelynotglamping #backtonature #saunaholidays #sauna #woodfiredsaunas #yurtworks #thewildcircletetreat

Sauna in the woods - a gentle way to ease slowly from summer to autumn. Free sauna sessions included with all our September and October yurtstays. #cornishyurtholidays #handmadelife #yurtholidays #yurts #saunaholidays #yurtstays #sauna #saunainthewoods #woodfiredsauna

A few prints from the pinhole series of photographs of Ash Trees. Lovely finish on a matt textured paper . Will be part of the Open Day here on the 29th June 11 - 4 - A celebration of Ash Trees. Available soon to buy in the Wild Circle Shop. #ashtrees #ashdieback #pinholephotography #pinholecamera #treeoflife #art #artphotography #handmadelife #artinnature

Stops me in my tracks every time - bluebells still in full tilt. The wonder of May as Spring unfolds day by day. #cornishyurtholidays #yurtholidays #saunaholidays #saunas #saunalife #handmadelife #ecoglamping #backtonature #natureholidays #holidaysinnature #dogfriendly

Happy Beltane! 🔥although the trees look old and gnarly this is a fairly new woodland maybe 60 - 70 years old- none of these young oaks were planted - all self seeded from a family of mother trees along a nearby hedge. No thinning minimal intervention, #cornishyurtholidays #yurtholiday #yurtholidays #ecoglamping #naturalregeneration #oaktrees #bluebells #beltane #woodlandmanagement #habitatmanagement

It looks like Spring but feels like autumn today with cold heavy showers. Still plenty to do before we open on Friday but sometimes it helps to light the fire and retreat from the world for an hour or two. #sauna #saunalife #woodfiredsauna #cornishyurtholidays #yurtholidays #madeincornwall #handmadelife #saunastays #saunaholidays

I rarely have bonfires these days for many reasons but today we burned one of the first yurts I made about 24 years ago. It was riddled with woodworm and had had its time. There is always a dilemma when working with the land, with Nature, acknowledging the needs of rabbits, deer, squirrels, moles, badgers , foxes, slugs, caterpillars …… and even woodworm beetles - when their needs conflict with human needs. It’s an ongoing conversation with no easy answers. This is the time of year the woodworm beetles emerge from the wood before laying eggs and starting the four year cycle over again. #yurts #yurtlife #yurtliving #cornishyurtholidays #cornishyurts #madeincornwall #handmadelife #yurtstays #bonfire

Blessed with a beautiful day, all three of our holiday yurts are now up. #cornishyurtholidays #yurtholidays #yurtstays #ecoglamping #saunaholidays #handmadelife #thewildcircle #thewildcircleretreat #dogfriendlyholidays #darkskyholidays #bodminmoor #camelvalley

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