Practical contractors

Veteranisation, halo release and safe removal only where it's genuinely needed. Will argue you out of felling a tree that could be left standing as deadwood.

Thirteen-tonne excavator and a habit of asking what the water is for before switching on. Shallow margins, spoil spread thin, no liners.

Devon and Midland styles. Teaches while she works, so most clients lay the second half of the hedge themselves the following winter.

Stock and deer fencing on awkward ground, including temporary electric set-ups for rotational grazing you can move yourself.

A small regenerative herd looking for autumn and winter grazing on rewilding sites. You set the conservation objectives, they check the stock daily.