From an audio interview
My initial interest in going to Hollybush was to learn to use a chainsaw properly. I was working in forestry on …
Three snippets Not in the book
The quite heavy bureaucracy of Community Programme meant we used the equivalent of a fair few of the trees we planted to complete the paperwork: …
A most unladylike career
I quite liked the idea of working outside but conservation didn´t really exist as a career then and at my all-girls school I remember being …
A Poster in the Library
Emma Crowley
I started in 1984. Good old days, poster in Library, poster said come to Hollybush. Started to do a countryside skills course, then …
Finding my “Tribe”
I was out of work in 1981. When I went to Job Centre for an interview, man said you haven’t got much on your CV …
An Accidental Leader
Edited from an audio interview
I was on a trip to Israel and came across a countryside warden in the Jordan Valley, who had a …