With planting season just over and spring in full swing we're already staring this years monitoring. Our wonderful volunteer Sheelagh introduces the first of this years ecological surveys - spotting birds on Bryn Arw (at 6am!)....

We've been accepted for the Big Give Green Match Fund, with a £10,000 match fund pot! This means we can raise £20k in total. This will go towards our core practices, supporting our woodland creation team and office in ensuring we're doing the very best we can for biodiversity. Of course, the more funds raised for our core activities, the more funds we can use to get trees in the ground!

Our general manager Dr Jenny Knight talks a little about the multiple benefits of trees, and how, whilst we have planted for ecological restoration, our sites will benefit from these diverse characteristics. This is key in our belief that increased tree cover can be done in ways that are led by and support the rural community - you don't have to agree on why you want to plant a tree, meaning diverse communities can work together to achieve diverse goals. 

In March 2024 we submitted a response to the Welsh Sustainable Farming Consultation - focusing on the key points relevant to our position as an environmental charity delivering farmer-led change in the rural landscape.

We have given permission for the full response to be made public, however, for accessibility we have included a summary of the key points raised.

In the first of our planting diaries, our Operations manager describes our first, and most complex (despite its relatively small size) sites of the season. Planting at Pant Y Pwll is designed to directly benefit bracken management, increase biodiversity, have direct impact on flood mitigation and is just a lovely place to be...