Dave Dibden
Pondhead Community Woodland, Lyndhurst
‘I go out in the woods and it brings back the way ancient ancestors worked and they were doing it for thousands of years – generation after generation doing the same thing before you. You do get that special feeling sometimes as if you are being watched.
‘Every season is different – you are doing all the coppicing in the winter and you’re freezing cold and wet through and I think ‘why am I doing this?’
‘But I can picture myself in the same place in the summer looking at all the flowers coming out – the foxgloves appearing where the light has been let in.’
