Simon yesterday at Brynllwyn. We were looking at the water levels in the field and discussing the evolving plan to plant more coppice trees in the wetland. The theroy is that it is slowly eutrophying , ie getting run off of nutrients from the surrounding farmland so that it becomes too rich for the wetland plants growing there. If it get richer adn less acid then nettles brambles and braken will jsut take it over adn we'll lose the some of buidiversity that has been improving there until now. A section of willow and a section of ash was what we agreed. Ash as its such a useful wood, grows well here and is easy to burn for heat as well as make things out of. Willow, we will chose varieties that are good bee fodder as we are planning to start a beehive this year. That would be an added bonus to the willow rods tthemselves, which we can se for making things, or perhaps on other garden project we get involved with else where. Any surplus can of course go to heat the houses.