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Tales from the Wild Wood: Episode 2

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Rob learns how to coppice and brings in the local woodland group to clear hazel trees.

Rob Penn brings an abandoned woodland back to life. In freezing weather he learns the ancient practice of coppicing and brings in the local woodland group to clear hazel trees.

Winter arrives in Rob Penn's wood. In freezing weather he learns the ancient practice of coppicing and brings in the local woodland group to clear overgrown hazel trees. With tonnes of timber piling up he goes off in search of a new organic super-fuel. Could our woodlands be the solution to our future energy needs?

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Writer and woodsman Rob Penn tries to bring part of an abandoned woodland back to life.

Writer and woodsman Rob Penn begins a year-long project to bring part of an abandoned woodland, Strawberry Cottage Wood, back to life.

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