A woman from Crewkerne has replanted an entire wood in Somerset and has documented the change in her latest book.
Ruth Pavey had a dream to reconnect with the British countryside where she grew up after living in London for many years.
She bought four acres of scrubland in Somerset and set about conserving and replanting it, tree by tree.
This, in turn, led to her bestselling memoir, A Wood of One’s Own, detailing the realisation of her dream.
Ruth has now written a second book, Deeper into the Wood, which is being published by Duckworth on May 27 that takes us back to her wood, looking at it month by month over a year.
The book has a strong environmental message and emerged from Ruth noticing how the species in her own little wood were dwindling and looking at what she could do about it.
Among the trees she spent twenty years planting, she witnesses nature’s forces changing rapidly with the diversity of species dwindling.
When the rabbits suddenly vanish, she decides it is time to take a closer look at the undergrowth to learn more of what is…
