At Home With Nature

Land Clearance Services in Central Portugal

Specialist land clearance services within 50 km of Alvaiazere in mid-Portugal.

One of our most popular services is our specialist land clearance, tree and forestry work.

Typical Land Clearance Projects

We treat every land clearance project differently, depending on its location and intended future use. Typically, our land clearance services are used for:

Preparation for the creation of new flower or kitchen gardens, orchards.

Maintenance of vineyards and olive groves.

Extension of pastures and paddocks for grazing.

Reclamation of land made inaccessible with brambles, bracken, old trees and scrub.

Maintain good neighbour relations and comply with legal requirements to reduce fire risk.

Land clearance for ruin restoration and new build home and garden projects.

Land clearance in preparation for property sales.

Once your land has been cleared, you'll be able to clearly see the natural contours of the land. Then, future plans and ideas are much easier to create as opposed to looking at a daunting overgrown wilderness.

You may also be surprised at the discovery of the native trees, flora and fauna.

Cleared land not only improves the visual amenity and ambience of your property, it also enhances and protects the naturally occurring ecosystems and environment.

Land Clearance Considerations

Where possible we walk around the site to be cleared with the owners, carefully checking what trees, shrubs and flowers can be kept to retain the natural character and ambience of the area to facilitate the following important considerations:

Maintaining privacy, preserving natural windbreaks, maximising and creating views.

Ensuring unwanted vegetation or scrub close to property and outbuildings is regularly cleared and maintained to help prevent the spread of Forest Fires. We strongly recommend that a minimum clearance radius of 50 metres from all property is adhered too.

Checking the safety of mature trees especially when in close proximity to property, electricity and telephone wires, and other public places.

We undertake land clearance work throughout the year, although if you want the cut vegetation burned, this is best done during the autumn and spring.

Helping the Natural Environment

The maintaining and creation of local habitats and ecosystems. This can easily be achieved by working with nature, for example, restoring and maintaining existing trees, shrubs and allowing the indigenous wild plants to flower and re-seed.

On larger sites, well away from property etc ( due to fire risks and public safety etc ) the creation of habitat piles to provide natural shelter for a variety of species, and to allow all the nutrients locked up in the habitat pile the chance to naturally decompose and return to the soil, thus completing the natural cycle as nature intended.

Where safe and appropriate, to allow standing dead trees to remain to act as a habitat for woodpeckers to nest and all the natural occurring insects that are found living under the bark and cavities of dead trees.

In certain situations creating dead trees by ring barking to provide the above habitats. It is a standard Forestry Commission recommendation to have 10% standing dead timber to encourage new habitats.

We strive to work to the highest possible standard to, care for the environment, to keep future maintenance costs to a minimum and help our friends and clients enjoy their land and gardens to the fullest.

If you need any help and advice regarding your land and trees, please do not hesitate to contact us.