unfinishing is the podcast about projects that are incomplete, abandoned, or not public. It’s presented by Emily Anderson and the artwork is by Graham Oakes.

If you have an incomplete or private project you’d like to talk about, please contact us via our website: https://unfinishing.co.uk/.

This episode features Kenton Rogers, the director and co founder of Treeconomics. Treeconomics is an organisation that uses the best available scientific techniques to understand and improve how trees enrich our urban and rural spaces.

Kenton talks about some of the projects that the team at Treeconomics has completed, and explains why working with trees is always an ongoing, unfinishing endeavour.

Kenton is a Chartered Urban Forester and Environmentalist. He’s worked on a range of commercial, urban and community forestry projects in the UK, Europe and North Africa. Kenton was a Trustee of the International Tree Foundation and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has written for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment and the Springer Handbook of Urban Forests, and co-authored the Haynes Workshop Manual for Trees.

‘Thank the Lord (for Sidmouth  Arboretum)’ was recorded by Kelvin Dent and Tess Bisson, musical director of Sid Vale Folk Choir.

Links of interest

Treeconomics website and resources: https://treeconomics.co.uk/resources/other-resources/ 

Birmingham Tree People: https://birminghamtreepeople.org.uk/

Sidmouth Arboretum: https://sidmoutharboretum.org.uk/