by Ruth Pybus | Feb 10, 2023 | Research, Woodland Management
Climate change has put the C word high up on the land use agenda and all of a sudden everyone wants to tell you how great they are at storing it. Sitka spruce growers exclaim, ‘look how fast my trees grow!’ whilst large-scale farmers brag, ‘grassland’s a great carbon...
by Rob Price | Dec 23, 2022 | Woodland Management
I arrived at Bron Haul in mid-November, although it didn’t feel like it, the crowns of the trees still thick with green and orange. Over the month that I would spend here I would see the landscape transform into a frozen kingdom, snow and ice laying over the...
by Dylan Hardy | Aug 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
I’m coming toward the end of my year with Broadleaf Wales under the RFS (Royal Forestry Society) Forestry Roots scheme and I think this is a good time to reflect on my past in forestry and to think about the future that lies ahead. Prior to my placement at Bron Haul,...
by Ruth Pybus | Jul 17, 2022 | Woodland Management
You may have noticed from… …plastered all over our website, that we’ve won the Royal Forestry Society’s 2022 Excellence in Forestry competition for the Small and Farm Woodland category. This year’s Best of the Best bout followed five years of regional competitions...
by David Brown | May 18, 2022 | Products
Last winter our friends Bettina (of Upsticks Yurt Holidays) and Jeff were commissioned to make a large yurt to provide an indoor/outdoor space for a childcare nursery. They came to us in January looking particularly for the long poles they needed to create the roof...