In the 1940's  far seeing foresters decided to run a long experiment planting 91 test plots of trees not normally planted in forest style conditions within Brechfa Forest  The foresters wanted to find out how the trees would respond to being planted and managed in traditional forest style techniques in the soil and weather conditions of Wales.   This is the only forest garden creating in Wales by Forestry Commission and one of only 4 in the UK  (1 in Scotland and 2 in England).  Over the years they measured growth patterns and the health of the trees to assess how useful each species would be.in a Forest.  

Some of the plots contain trees classified as endangered or rare.   others have trees with adaptions such changes to their bark which would enable them to survive forest fires.  As the tourism cluster group for Brechfa Forest we have had some grant funding to digitise the research results on publish on our website.

We need help to raise the profile of our forest in general,  and the forest garden in particular from someone able to write articles  that will be picked up by the press.   Our forest is only a few miles from the National Botanical Gardens for Wales so we already have visitors in the area who are interested in plant based tourist attractions in addition to the specialist interest for people wanting a forest bathing experience,   or inspiration for planting trees on their own land.    We have been designated as an exemplar community to demonstrate the advantages of community led sustainable development in a project with the then Prince Charles as president have permission to mention his support in articles.