Woodland Conference – 28/3/25
MMCLT held a successful and very well attended Woodland Conference on Friday 28th March at Norbury Village Hall.
Presentations from the conference can be accessed on the coloured panel on this page – thank you to the speakers for providing these.
As well as talks and discussion on woodland and woodland management, this conference was saw the launch of the fledgling “Marches Artists for Nature,” a group of local artists who focus on Nature in their work.
Links to the artist websites are also included on this page. Sales of any work via MMCLT by MaFN will be put into MMCLT’s nature recovery fund. So do please support them!
Conference Resources
Presentations
Below are links to the presentations given on the day (links open as pdfs).
- Will Fitzpatrick, The Tree Council
Shropshire’s Hedgerow Survey Research - Dr Keith Kirby, visiting researcher (Dept of Biology), University of Oxford
Woodland flowers: ancient past, wild future? - Peter Aspin, farmer
Shropshire Agroforestry Project - Patrick Cosgrove & Anthony Morgan, Redlake Valley Community Benefit Society
Woodland Quillets - Richard Thomason, Wild About Westhope/CPRE Shropshire
Life in the Coppice (short film – You Tube link) - Dougald Purce, Shropshire Hills National Landscape
Ancient Woodland Restoration Project - David Reeve & Russell Critchley, Small Woods Association
Mercian Woodland Biodiversity Project - Nick Rowles, Trees outside Woodlands
Micro Nurseries
Plus:
- Hadley Wood Hedgerow Trials: Summary (Railway hedges for interest. They were invited as speakers but couldn’t come. Thanks to The Tree Council)
- Conference Report here
- Woodland Conference: Discussion notes
Marches Artists for Nature
Flyer and more information:
Marches Artists for Nature flyer
Artists:
- Kate Chitham
www.katechithamfineart.co.uk - Tom Davies
www.tomdavies.com - Lucy Gaze
https://wanderinggaze.co.uk - Sarah Gillard
www.sarahgillard.com - Sarah Jameson
www.sarahjameson.co.uk - Simon Jameson
www.1066creations.co.uk
Address
Enterprise House, Station Street, Bishops Castle, SY9 5AQ
Email us
info@middlemarchescommunitylandtrust.org.uk
Telephone
01743 891492 (Dr Richard Keymer)