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On this day, we’d be planting a native hedge – 60 bare-root saplings of Beech, Hornbeam, Hazel, Hawthorn, Blackthorn and Wayfaring Tree.

Join us on the first day of the Worcester Walk Community Project's landscape restoration journey, as we plant a continuous native hedge to protect the rare semi-wooded pasture in the Forest of Dean.

In 2007 this land was unproductive farmland. Two streams flowed sluggishly through it to form a boggy field. With over 1,000 trees have been planted to transform the land and landscape.

Oxford City Farm was set up a few years ago on a site in East Oxford as a space where people can grow food together, learn new skills, and meet new people.

Since 2014, ITF has partnered with Oxford City Farm (OCF) who provide highly valued opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to engage with farming and food production, animals, nature and each other. Phil Pritchard, a member of OCF, shares his experience and advice for anyone interested in tree planting.

Sunday 8th March marks International Women’s day. What better time to celebrate one of our own UK tree planting women: Sue Pitt. Over the past four years, Sue has facilitated the planting of over 1000 trees and helped vulnerable adults improve their well-being through nature.

It was such a pleasure visiting the young residents who benefited from our very special orchard project and brought it to life. Hear from them first-hand telling us what the Fruit-full Communities project meant to them.

As the Fruit-full Communities project comes to the end of its third and final year this seems like a good moment to reflect on what has been achieved.

Discover how YMCA Derbyshire transformed an overgrown space into a tranquil orchard as part of the Fruit-full Communities project.

Verve Place temporary housing centre is one of 26 sites taking part in Fruit-full Communities – a project supporting young people in supported housing to design and plant an orchard on their grounds.

The second year of the Fruit-full Communities Project got off to a flying start with the ‘Training of Trainers Day’ held on 12th April at DECSY in Sheffield.

An ambitious plan to bring back the majestic elm tree to the British countryside is well underway. With hundreds of elm saplings being planted in West Sussex by our partner, Conservation Foundation.

ITF are supporting a project to re-plant an acre of land with 600 new trees to create more diverse woodland with a mixture of hazel, beech and birch which will be coppice managed.

Young eco warriors are championing the cause for trees at Acresfield Community Primary School. ITF are supporting a project to plant 50 indigenous trees to help the school increase its woodland.

Over the next twelve months 120 English, Field, Wych and Huntingdon elms will be planted in three Sussex villages in the Cuckmere valley.

The project, based in the London Borough of Redbridge, aims to transform an overgrown and unused woodland area into an interactive space that is accessible to all ELHAP users.

A note from Ted Green M B E – ITF Vice President.