Chris Skinner's Countryside Podcasts

Episode 2.95 - Bracken Croziers and Brambling Flocks

Send us Fan Mail On a breezy but still mild late-October morning at High Ash Farm, Chris Skinner and Matthew Gudgin walk into Cantley Hill Plantation and finally give proper attention to a plant Chris has overlooked for years despite its lifelong link with him — bracken. Covering about five acres on the farm and still shoulder-high and green after the drought on a south-facing gravel slope, the fronds rise from long underground rhizomes that allow it to recover almost overnight, as it did wit...