10 Oct 2014 | News
And a hearty welcome back to the office for our ecologists and arboriculturalists! It’s been a manic summer, packed with a real plethora of interesting places, buildings and habitats for us to survey, survey, survey. From woodlands to barns, brownfield sites to...
16 May 2014 | News
And so the trees are finished. With aching muscles and some jolly good looking new woodlands in the Welsh Marches, we are swinging straight into the ecology survey season. Tonight is our first foray of the year into bat spotting, as the barn conversion surveys start....
11 Apr 2014 | News
With the sudden and unexpected warm weather (we were digging ewes and lambs out of snow drifts at the end of March last year) the tree planting season is coming to a rapid close. The warmth inevitably brings dormant broadleaves into bud and leaf, which signals the...
28 Mar 2014 | News
Many people keep in touch with rural matters by listening at 7pm each evening to The Archers on Radio 4. Sadly for us, Tony’s latest dead cow and TB storyline has been rather close to the bone. Farming, as with many professions, can only be successful when faced...
21 Mar 2014 | News
As the tree planting season draws to a close, we’ve come to the conclusion that we really have had enough of trees. Maybe that is a little over the top, but some of our tree planting projects this spring have been enormous, and it’s jolly hard work. Despite the...
