Our woodland is predominantly sweet chestnut which we coppice to produce wood for construction projects.
This area has been coppiced over the past two years and will now be rested. To create more diversity in the rootstock, we planted a nursery of 200 mixed species saplings last year.
The muntjac deer are very partial to saplings for dinner so these are surrounded by net fencing to give them a chance to grow tall enough to be left alone.