Andrew Hall enjoying the shelter amongst the established trees around his croft Crofter Andrew Hall is leading the charge to plant trees on an island that is famously inhospitable to anything taller taller than rushes – Shetland. Mr Hall, of Burravoe Croft, has been taking advantage of grants from Scottish Forestry to grow trees to revitalise his business, and has successfully received forestry grants on four occasions in the past years. He has just received approval for more funding from Scottish Forestry which will help him plant another 2500 trees. All the paperwork for the planting was carried out himself and it took only seven weeks for his proposals to be approved and funded.
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Sutherland farmer s supersize woodland creation plan is given seal of approval: 1.4 million new trees will be planted By Caroline McMorran
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Updated: 08:32, 23 December 2020
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A farmer based in Sutherland is to grow the largest woodland to be approved by Scottish Forestry this century.
From end to end, the new 933 hectare woodland will stretch over 12km along Strath Carnaig, strengthening the current native woodland networks on a landscape scale.
Dornoch farmer, Ken Greenland, worked closely with Scottish Forestryâs Highland and Islands Conservancy team to approve the plan, which aims to increase the biodiversity of the Cambusmore estate.