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On Your Farm: Woodland Crofts

Woodland Crofts

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Richard Baynes visits woodland crofts on the Cowal peninsula in western Scotland.

Richard Baynes meets the people putting their energy into clear-felled forestry land to create productive woodland crofts at Tignabruaich on the Cowal peninsula in Scotland.

The idea of woodland crofts is taking off in Scotland, with 250 families now on the waiting list, keen to grow trees and food on former forestry land. In this programme Richard Baynes visits Tignabruaich on the Cowal peninsula where he talks to woodland croft tenants Marylou Anderson and Craig Ward, and meets two of those who want to follow in their footsteps, turning stump-covered hillsides into productive ground. Richard discovers habitats among the brash, hears about plans to tame invasive rhododendrons, and learns that there troll villages hidden in the moss. 

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