Hello. The relevant word is accidental in this group's name as far as I am personally concerned. I have ended up owning five and a half acres of land because when my sister and her husband wanted to buy the house and some land from a deceased tenat farmers landlord, they could not quite afford the proposed land parcel, so I put all my savings in and bought a third of it. This was not as altruistic as it may seem as it is five minutes from my suburban semi and as I have a disability the idea of an idyllic wildflower meadow to watch nature in appealed to me. Holidays require too much feeling like a burden. Long story short, that was four years ago. As the years passed I learned the hard way that nature delivers thistles stinging nettles and brambles when left alone, not wildflowers. I discovered, as did sister, contractors who can small bale hay are like gold dust. I discovered schemes that purport to offer "free" trees usually come with atrings that are either expensive in fencing or contracing, or require hard labour. I now have neither money nor muscles!
I shall be following this forum with real interest, hoping to learn some useful stuff from others. Oh...the complication is that the land has been quarried for sand since Roman times, until about twenty years ago in fact. It therefore is crazily patchy, between hardcore infill with a thin mixed soli topping, and lovely patches of sandy loam. Unmapped, officially "contaminated" but signed off by council as safe. This year got my first hay crop, 380 bales, and helpers plantd three hundred trees at the wet end. Adjacent land belongs to shooting estate and is wooded.
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