Duncan Stewart

An eco eye on Ireland’s forests with Duncan Stewart

By chance, on the way to a great conference last week I happened to meet Duncan Stewart - we were both taking public transport. Duncan is perhaps one of Ireland's best known TV personalities, an award-winning architect, he hosts Ireland's only environmental programme "EcoEye". In fact, with the woeful reporting on environmental concerns in Ireland…Read more An eco eye on Ireland’s forests with Duncan Stewart

Lightfoot Iron and Trojan horses – doing the hard work in a forest

This post is a bit overdue but it was an important step in the recent thinning of our wood,   in the process of converting it to a mixed species, permanent forest. As we decided to remove about 30% of our 24yr trees in our woodland, this meant that from our 2.5 acres 250 trees werefelled!…Read more Lightfoot Iron and Trojan horses – doing the hard work in a forest