A chance conversation at the Holker Garden Festivalmay have led to a use for previously discarded brash, a by-product of coppicing South Lakeland’s extensive woodlands. When South Cumbria Rivers Trust Manager, Pete Evoy met coppicer Sam Ansell he knew that many of the area’s rivers and streams would benefit from the addition of woody debris that would provide shelter for … [Read more...] about Coppice by-product may have a use
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Kirkby Stephen Parrots
If anyone had said that parrots, or are they macaws, could be seen flying over a north of England town they most people would have said they were 'off their tree!' To the townsfolk of Kirkby Stephen in the Upper Eden valley having these brightly coloured birds sitting in the dark English tree canopy is now a common occurance. … [Read more...] about Kirkby Stephen Parrots