Rob Penn's year in Strawberry Cottage Wood is nearly at an end. After ten months hard work he gets a final assessment from the local conservation expert. He attends an international cricket match to hunt down the timber he felled in the winter, and throws a party for everybody who has helped him throughout the year.
As summer arrives, the pressure is on Rob Penn to turn labour into profit in Strawberry Cottage Wood. He dips his toes into the beanpole industry, before learning how to make charcoal. With his costs spiralling, he needs to find a market for his product and convince people that UK charcoal can compete with products imported from abroad.
Rob Penn continues his year-long project to restore the abandoned Strawberry Cottage Wood, Monmouthshire. As spring arrives, new life emerges within the forest. A visit to a secret woodland allows Rob to see how tomorrow's trees might look, but his newly planted trees soon come under threat from the local squirrel population.