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Tree Amble

After 30 years working to restore nature in forests and on farms, Pete Leeson takes time out to revisit the people he’s met along the way. Throughout the series, Pete discovers how land managers are adapting and responding to the nature crisis we all face, while navigating the economic challenges within farming today. People are at the heart of this podcast, holding the potential to do some incredible things. We meet farmers, ecologists, rewilders and more to find out how communities are building

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51:24

Epping Forest - Andy Froud - Pollarding and Nature

Tree Amble ·

2025/10/14

Andy's episode in second in our series of 4 podcasts about Epping Forest. This amazing 6000 acre ancient woodland and site of special scientific interest is literally cheek by jowl with the city of London - the woodland sits mainly between the London boroughs of Chingford and Epping - an area of woodland that rises not far from the city and travels north and east out to the M25. Its management history goes back 1000's of years of cattle grazing and tree management through pollarding and coppicing of

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Series 5 Episode 9 - James Rebanks Upland Cumbrian...

Tree Amble ·

2025/09/27

James needs little by way of introduction - he's well known for his views on farming and both his books and many broadcasts and interviews he's had on the subject. We were lucky enough to have worked with James on the farm with various hedge and tree planting events over the years. Enjoy an episode about farming planting trees and hedges and not losing productive land!

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48:11

Series 5 Episode 9 James Rebanks at Racy Ghyll

Tree Amble ·

2025/09/01

James Rebanks needs little by introduction. He has made a name for himself by authoring books and talking about his farming life in Cumbria and now many appearances on TV and Radio and even as guest editor on BBC Radio 4's Today Programme. But Tree Amble knows James of old from his tree planting, hedgerow, river rewiggling and pond building - much of which we have helped with. Look forward to our chat with James about trees and farming.

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58:02

Series 5 Episode 7 - The Courtyard Dairy with Andy...

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2025/07/21

Andy and Kathy Swinscoe have developed, from very small beginnings, a cheese retail business that now employs over 20 people in the heart of Yorkshire. The business has been located just outside Settle since 2017 and has grown to include the Cheese Shop, cheese production facility, museum and restaurant. Andy has spent a life in and around cheese both as a retailer and as maker in the UK and in France - his knowledge about cheese is astounding. We went to interview Andy because of the effect his

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Series 4 Episode 10 Glen Finglas Woodland Restoration

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2025/02/25

In this episode of Tree Amble we head up to Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park in Central Scotland to meet Hamish Thompson the Estate Manager of the Woodland Trust's largest single site Glen Finglas. Hamish and his team are responsible for managing over 4000 ha / 10,000 acres of ancient woodland, wood pasture, peat bog and mountain. This is tree management on an epic scale and a day's walk around the tracks or up one of the Glen's hills is hardly enough to take in the scale of this

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Series 4 Episode 8 Kate Hanley - Peat Restoration

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2025/01/23

We met Kate Hanley down at Dovestones just east of Oldham on a very wet day in 2024. Kate works for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) and manages a brilliant project on land above Dovestones which is owned by water company United Utilities but leased to the RSPB for nature recovery. Kates work here is really drilling down into how we restore very degraded peat bogs - essential for carbon storage, water management [keeping water back for both flood prevention and droughts] and for

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01:19:17

Series 4 Episode 6 Crofting On Lismore Claire and Mike

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2024/11/29

We took some time out last spring to head out to Lismore - a wee island a short ferry ride from Oban - to meet Claire and Mike on their beautiful productive and, as it turned out, biodiverse croft. Crofting is a very old tradition in Scotland with small areas of land managed for food production in often remote communities. Claire and Mike have created an oasis of life within their which produces lots of vegetables and fruits - but they also grow tea! The spring birds were a joy when we visited

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01:10:50

Series 4 Episode 5 Farming at Matson Ground Windermere

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2024/11/14

Matson Ground is a traditional Lake District Estate with house, gardens and cottages (some available as holiday accommodation) a few small offices and about 500 ha of organic farmland situated just south and East of Windermere in the Lake District. In this Tree Amble episode we meet Madelaine who is the current owner of the estate which came into her family 100 years ago. We also meet Pete Webster - farm manager - and Luke Steer - woodland adviser. We talk about managing the estate and the new wood

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39:22

Dal Festival with Wakelyns Suffolk Lentils

Tree Amble ·

2024/08/29

Lentils / Dal / Protein / Legumes / Climate positive AgricultureWelcome to a delicious edition of Tree Amble! In July we headed off to the second annual Dal festival on Wakelyns Farm in Suffolk. David and his team, with support from Hodmedods, started growing lentils in their agroforestry system in 2023 and held their first Dal celebration in 2023. We joined them to celebrate the second festival and on the way got to talk Dal with 5 chefs creating dishes fom India, Africa and Afghanistan as well

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01:20:54

Series 4 River Restoration with George Heritage

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2024/08/07

Rivers / River Restoration / Habitat Creation / Fish / Climate Change In this episode of Tree Amble, the first of Series 4, we meet George Heritage who has made a career out of understanding rivers and now works to restore them for biodiversity and water management and we go out to the riverside with a team from West Cumbria Rivers Trust and volunteers to monitor a stretch of river for its fish population. Jonny and Ruth use a method call "eclectro fishing" to count fish of all sizes in a stretch

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44:40

Series 3 Episode 6 - Emergency Doctor and Tree...

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2024/06/02

Emergency medicine / nature / wellbeing in nature / gardening / swifts and swift boxes / tree planting Emergency doctor and nature lover Beanie Merson is more than an inspiration! This episode is about how anyone can pick up the nature bug and start with small scale projects that help transform an area. Beanie came into practicing medicine during covid - she was one of a generation of doctors who came out into the world at a time of massive stress and when we needed them like rarely before. We met

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01:00:43

Series 3 Episode 5 - Arable Farming Norfolk with...

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2024/05/20

Arable Farming / Grants / Agri-envirnoment / Minimum Tillage In this episode of Tree Amble we headed off to Norfolk to meet Gavin Lane to talk about his efforts to change farming practices on the two holdings he manages. We talk about reducing tillage and the the use of agri-environment grants as a route to fund changes in approach, Pete admits to being a bit out of his depth on this one - not knowing the ins and outs of the arable sectors as well as others, but we hope its an interesting

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54:31

Series 3 Episode 4 - Lake District Farmers with Phil...

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2024/04/24

Lake District / Farming / Food production / Food Supply / Rural Jobs Tree Amble went to meet the team at Lake District farmers for a chat about their role in bridging the gap between quality meat production in Cumbria's Lake District and markets for that meat further south. The company was set up to create a value chain which brought back more income to the upland farmers of Cumbria and which created a sustainable quality meat supply. As Pete is a vegetarian - and has been for over 3 decades -

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01:01:28

Series 2 Episode 9 - Chris Hodgson Lake District...

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2024/02/22

If you know the Lakes and perhaps have walked in the fells north of Ambleside you will likely have past Chris at some point or more likely his sheep and cows. His tenanted farm must be in one of the most iconic locations we have - tucked in as it is below Fairfield. But it was once much more tree'd so we have been working with Chris now for over a decade trying to see how we can integrate trees into his farming system - notably via a higher level stewardship scheme. When first met Chris we probably

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Series 2 Episode 8 - Chris Neave Make it Wild

Tree Amble ·

2024/02/07

Chris, Helen and the family agreed several years ago that they were increasingly concerned about the state of nature and that, with some money they had at hand, they would buy some land in North Yorkshire for a tree planting project. I met Chris and Helen around this time more or less when they had acquired their first site. We talked about possible outcomes and went on to create a woodland with wildflowers much like Alwyn did [see one of earlier episodes - Alwyn's Forest of Flowers]. Since then

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01:24:00

Oxford REAL - Voices of ORFC 2024

Tree Amble ·

2024/01/18

Oxford REAL Farming Conference has become one of the most exciting, warm and creative events in the calendar. Set, as you would imagine, in Oxford the event brings together people from all walks of life but who share a passion for changing our farming and food systems to include people at all levels but also nature in all its glory. In January 2024 1800 paying delegates went to Oxford REAL - this REAL has become a big DEAL!Tree Amble went along with a mic and a bag of questions. We interviewed many

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Oxford REAL Farming Conference - conversation with...

Tree Amble ·

2024/01/18

Oxford REAL Farming Conference has become one of the most exciting, warm and creative events in the calendar. Set, as you would imagine, in Oxford the event brings together people form all walks of life but who share a passion for changing our farming and food systems to include people at all levels but also nature in all its glory. In January 2024 1800 paying attendees went to Oxford REAL - this REAL has become a big DEAL! Tree Amble interviewed two of the founders - Ruth West and Colin Tudge - to

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Series 2 Episode 7 - Alasdair and Sam On The Croft

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2024/01/09

Sam and Alasdair's croft is in a beautiful location overlooking the sea and includes land by the water. It also rises up sometimes quite steep wooded slopes to the foot of the "hill" behind. This croft has supported generations of folks from its small but productive grazing fields yet it also contains remnants of what we might now call Temperate Rainforest or even, this close to the sea, Maritime Rainforest. This zone of rainforest has moderate year round temperatures and high humidity.. it is

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Series 2 Episode 6 - Mike the Ecologist

Tree Amble ·

2023/12/13

Tree Amble went to meet Mike in Cumbria in a patch of woodland where beavers have been released - and where they have really got to work creating ponds and pools and coppicing trees. Mike does a lot of work with Pete from Tree Amble. Pete wanted to get a glimpse of Mike's work monitoring the response of wildlife to management changes in projects designed to bring back nature. Mike and Tamsin are a couple and both work as ecologists helping us monitor change. The evidence they provide can either

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Series 2 Episode 5 - Ruth Dalton farming with nature

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2023/12/03

Tree Amble went to meet Ruth at her and Wal's holding in the South Lakes towards the end of the summer. We talked about how, by grazing native cattle, planting trees and managing hedges they have brought back life to this small but characterful area of land. Part of the conversation reflects how they each advocate for slightly different outcomes and like all good farming couples have to come to agreement about where what and when in their farming system. Ruth does a lot of work with farmers across

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