Sunday, 22 March 2009

Tree Planting Day

Our tree planting day has been a long time coming.

We managed to get 150 trees and a £100 grant from the woodland trust. We used the £100 to get 250 more trees to plant out.

Local Councillor Jim Grey came down to open our event and plant a tree. We even got a newspaper article in the local Echo News.

We had cakes, raffle, tea/coffee/soft drinks, craft stall, teddy tombola and hot sausages in buns available to all - we raised just under £200.

But the important part of the event was getting all 400 trees in and around our boundaries, in a few years time we'll have a nice big hedge which'll give us privacy, protection, wildlife, a supply of kindling and fruit.

Because there are around 15 native species in the soil, our kids will also learn the different properties and how to recognise them.

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