A. Smith Countryside

                          Alan Smith, BSc Conservation Biology & Ecology.

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After 10 years of experience in gardening, woodland and estate maintenance I founded A. Smith Countryside.

 

I am fully insured and qualified. I hold a 2:1 degree that has helped me to expand knowledge in subjects such as plant biology, ecological systems, silvicultural systems and practical and affective conservation managements. I have also gained further training in arboriculture and horticulture at Cannington College. Here I have developed skills in cultivation and propagation, plant identification, cross cutting, and felling with traditional tools and a chainsaw, tree climbing, tractor operating and brush cutting. 

 

​I have worked on projects such as planning, planting, thinning and processing, mixed woodlands and orchards for 

organisations such as the National Trust and the Crown Estate.

I have also conducted ecological surveys, monitoring, guided plant walks and been a field demonstrator for the University of Exeter at their Cornwall campus.