BBC Radio Kent - Make a Difference: Kent

Environmental finalist Mark Herbert, Combwell Wood

This SSSI site just outside Kilndown is being managed with biodiversity in mind.

The trust look after 28 acres of woodland, meadow and open space in Bearsted.

Inspired during Covid, Phil has created a 42 mile walking route.

When we visited, the group were hard at it in the heat clearing invasive Himalayan balsam

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