Rushalls has been Organic Farming in Wiltshire since 1970 caring for the local environment and producing high quality organic food. Today, Nigel and Joe farm the land across Rushall and Upavon as one business. The business covers […]
The Agroforestry Research Trust is a non-profit making charity, registered in England, which researches into temperate agroforestry and into all aspects of plant cropping and uses, with a focus on tree, shrub and perennial crops. Agroforestry […]
Teaching green woodwork, bushcraft and a variety of coppice skills, Cherry Wood is a 40 acre sustainably managed woodland situated in a sheltered valley branching from St. Catherine’s Valley, five miles to the north east of the City of […]
The Glastonbury Conservation Society was founded in 1971 in appreciation of our built and natural environment in Glastonbury, Somerset. Planting Volunteers are always welcome. The society has so far planted 48,500 trees in and around Glastonbury. To […]
Charles is an acclaimed innovator of no dig, organic growing since 1983, and since 2003 of new ways to crop salad leaves. His original, weed free methods give superb results in both small and large areas. […]
Reimagining the Levels are a group of people active in a range of community based organisations and businesses on the Somerset Levels and its catchment. They are actively engaged in promoting a joined up approach to the […]
The Somerset Rural Life Museum reopened on Saturday 3rd June following a major 2.4 million redevelopment. The museum tells the story of Somerset’s rich and rural social history using agricultural, social history and fine art […]
Glastonbury Abbey is a registered charity – Number 1129263 – and a company limited by guarantee with visitor income and donations the only source of income. In 1907 the ruins and neighbouring Abbey House were […]
“Trees to plant in Somerset” ** Click here for details of the trees Diana recommended in her talk ** DIANA BERESFORD-KROEGER, a botanist, medical biochemist and self-defined “renegade scientist,” brings together ethnobotany, horticulture, spirituality and alternative medicine […]
It might not seem like painting trees is a massive solution, but observing their beauty, spending that time to explore your own creative response to them, writing what you perceive are all major gift to […]
The Forest Commission has created online software that allows you to assess your soil, bring in variables like rainfall, wind and underlying geography across the UK to ensure that you find species that are going […]
Checking out the fungi you see, enjoying how mushrooms are the flowering bodies of different large underground mycelial networks that are providing the trees with vital nutrients and water. Getting to know the earth around […]
One of the most liberating things you can do to follow your passion for trees is to give yourself the credit that you could understand the science and start reading books like The Man who […]
It is a sad fact that in many areas, where well meaning people have planted deciduous trees, there has been much damage created by the squirrel and deer populations. Probably not as much havoc as […]
In conversations with individuals through the Royal Forestry Society you discover that some of the most well kept woodland in the UK is in the hands of private landlords, handed down in large family estates. […]
As groups like the local wildlife trusts, RSPB, Royal Horticultural Society and many pollinator groups can tell you, your contribution of supporting growing pollinator friendly flowers and flowering trees is incredibly important at this time. […]
The UK government has recognised the need for working with forest cover to sequester garden as illustrated both by Combating Climate Change: A Role for UK Forests available from the Forestry Commission’s website and also […]
Humans mostly to have the potential to be great gardeners, sometimes just by leaving things alone! Creative planting of fruit and nut trees, in the form of local orchards can become a vital communities source of […]
One our The Tree Conference’s speakers, Diana Beresford-Kroeger has told us if there was one main aim of her message to do with reforestation it would be to support the oceans by what we do […]
There is a significant movement to focus on the area’s between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer as the equatorial belt where trees planted sequester significantly more carbon. Projects in these areas almost universally are […]
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