Farm Woodland Management with Ruth Pybus, Broadleaf Wales (Welsh Subtitles)

Ruth Pybus (Broadleaf Wales & NFFN Cymru Farmer) has spent the last 15 years converting 20 hectares of young mixed farm woodland to continuous cover woodland growing quality hardwood timber. The woodland is managed to improve opportunities for biodiversity and beneficial rearing conditions for the small suckler herd. The woodland won the gold medal for Small and Farm Woodlands in the Royal Forestry Society’s Excellence in Forestry competition 2021 and the farm is currently hosting a trainee under the RFS Forestry Roots scheme.

She and her partner have recently started a business, Broadleaf Wales. The consultancy part of the business delivers woodland management courses and provides mentoring through Farming Connect, woodland creation plans under Glastir and various woodland support through the Woodland Trust. The business is also developing a local market for their timber products, including sweet chestnut cleft fence posts, stiles, field gates and planked timber. She enjoys the excitement of seeing the range of products growing in diversity alongside the rapid improvement in wildlife as the woodland develops. The cows like it too!

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