Why buy a woodland?
A wonderful experience!
You will buy a wood because you want it.
Maybe it fulfils a long term dream, of being a land-owner, and of caring for nature. You will buy it because it will fill a special place in your life, and if possible also in the life of your family and friends.
Perhaps you will camp there, picnic there, entertain friends, have birthday parties, chill out on your own. You will get closer to the natural world.
Sometimes you will work from dawn to dusk, cutting coppice poles, widening the tracks, or fighting the rhododendron. You may want to buy simply to sit back and enjoy the wood. By night you will listen to the owls, sneak out to observe the badgers, or just lie looking skyward at a million million stars.
And when the time is right you will pass it on to another loving owner, perhaps your own children. Never again will your special piece of woodland be just part of some great anonymous plantation.
Research
We asked some owners in Kent and Sussex to answer the question “Why buy a Woodland” and you can see them answering the question here….
And then, spreading our investigations further, we sent questionnaires to owners of small woodlands throughout the UK. From this research report we learnt that the vast majority are passionate about wild life, more than half have planted new trees in their woods, and most of them have made or are making a management plan… 80% of those responding said they have enjoyed owning a wood even more than they thought they would. Read the research report in full for much more.
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