
Farming Today This Week: Forestry
Charlotte Smith meets Sarah Walters and Stephen Briggs, who bought a neglected and overgrown wood in Warwickshire. Eight years on it is winning woodland awards.
Charlotte Smith meets Sarah Walters and Stephen Briggs at 20-acre Alvecote Woods on the Warwickshire/Staffordshire border. They bought the overgrown and neglected woodland eight years ago. Now it's winning awards and was the first woodland to be awarded a Grown in Britain licence, which assures good practice and sustainability. The wood is also now home to a wide variety of wildlife, several ponds and a wildlife meadow.
We also hear about the forestry industry - worth a total of 拢4.1 billion pounds to the UK economy. And find out what advice scientists are giving about the increasing threat from tree diseases and pests.
The producer is Sally Challoner.
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- Sat 24 Oct 2015 06:3091热爆 Radio 4
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