Winter frosts
Winter is the time to enjoy homemade sloe gin made in autumn from the dusky purple berries of the blackthorn. Why not enjoy walks made firm of foot under the bright night frosts. This is the time the team will start checking for brown hairstreak butterfly eggs, scrutinising eyes searching in the nooks and crannies of the bare hedgerow twigs. Traditional coppicing starts in earnest in the woodlands, with fogged breath, the sound of the saw and the crack of a fire all drifting on the still crisp air. If snow appears there are some fantastic slopes to provide winter fun for children and adults alike.