Our Projects
Community Tree Nursery Collaborative (CTNC)
The Community Tree Nursery Collaborative is a new initiative set up in partnership with four established community tree nurseries: Coeden Fach, Moor Trees, Special Branch and the Tree Musketeers.
Our dream is to have hundreds of community tree nurseries across the UK, bringing people together to cultivate locally sourced trees to increase tree cover for ecological and community well-being.
We are also running a series of online events from November 2021 and May 2022. View more about this on the CTNC page.
Nature Talks
You are invited to these conversations where revolutionary speakers bring powerful voices for Nature and Earth. As life shifts, we have invited spiritual and ecological leaders, pioneers and advocates to talk about how our return to nature will support our evolving world.
Disclaimer: All information, views, opinions and content expressed with Nature Talks series are solely of the individuals guests involved and do not necessarily represent those of Fellowship of the Trees. Furthermore, the information and content provided is not a substitute for medical, legal or other professional advice, and as such, you may seek it on your own accord.
The Growing Diversity Project
The ‘Growing Diversity’ project is a partnership between The Woodland Trust and Fellowship of the Trees, funded by the Forestry Commission’s Tree Production Innovation Fund. This is a ground-breaking project which for the first time will tackle head on the challenges tree nurseries have in England, in growing a diverse range of native trees from seed, which include barriers due to cost, capacity and resources.
Together, the Fellowship of the Trees, the Woodland Trust and community tree nurseries will combine knowledge, expertise and resources. There is promising potential to address barriers in the forestry sector by targeting areas of the country with low seed collection and the project will enable us to identify specific seed sources that have genetic resilience to withstand local environmental stressors.
By working closely with nurseries it will look to and ensure more trees are UK sourced and grown and in turn this will reduce the devastating impacts of tree disease. We hope to create business opportunities for community tree nurseries and as a wider goal see more native tree species sprouting up across England’s landscape as a result. We look forward to you being involved.
Tree Stewardship
Trees and biodiversity habitats are part of our family. These sentient beings thrive with tending, nurturing and communication.
FotT recognises that planting trees does not mean we will co-create a flourishing natural world for future generations; it is only part of the solution. Tree Stewardship weaves in watering, tending and management in the way of looking after the aging trees, support for the younger trees and learning how to still ourselves as stewards to listen to nature and its wisdom and knowing.
Through sharing the experience and knowledge of wise peoples the talks offered are to inspire, to create a curiosity for people to co-create community led base groups to support their local natural environment.
UK Community Initiative, Tree Guardians – Micro Nurseries (restarting 2022)
Tree Guardians pledge to nurture and tend native tree seeds for two years, in their gardens, balconies and windowsill. To grow flourishing saplings which will deepen their relationship and practical experience of growing trees along with learning what the benefits each tree species offers to the environment including communities and people.
This initiative is about creating a web of micro nurseries throughout the UK. Where after two years of guardianship the saplings will be part of local community planting projects and weaving deeper stewardship qualities between Tree Guardians and saplings.
Tending seeds at home offers an opportunity for all people within our communities to contribute to regenerating rural, urban as well as community environments.
We chose to champion Native Tree Species as within a woodland, hedgerow or on land biodiversity is also affected by whether the main tree species are native to Britain. Non-Native Trees are often uninviting to native species of invertebrates, which have not evolved to feed on them. Increased biodiversity can be found where there are native tree species along with the tree species having adapted over years to climate and environmental variability.
Part of this initiative is to invite people to pause and observe trees where they live and how the trees inspire creative expression whether it is through poems, music, songs, movement or art and to share these with wider communities.
You are invited to be a Tree Guardian by clicking the “Join here” button below.
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