The Thing About Grey Squirrels is…

What is the most important job we do in our woodland? Without a doubt, it’s controlling grey squirrels. I do this throughout the late spring and summer to prevent grey squirrels from bark stripping the trees that I have spent the winter favouring with my thinning and...

Dovetail box in wild cherry

Wild cherry logs – such a treat in the firewood pile. Whack with a splitting maul, and the clean inside shimmers with warm orange, yellow and green swirls. What double joy that the woodland is now producing cherry stems big enough to venture beyond aesthtic log piles...

Beast from the East for Spring Beauty

Our media has taken to demonising cold winter blasts, with headlines alerting us to forecasts of the ‘Beast-from-the-East’. But how lovely it has been to have a winter with some real winter weather! At Bron Haul, we had snow twice in January 2021, which stayed on the...