What a wonderful morning! The sun shone, the rain held off though the bitter wind still blew and we have been with friends, their friends and neighbours and we have planted 800 trees! Nicky and Gavin had organised an amazing event called Trees and Bowls to bring people together to plant the trees in their field at blanket Farm. Between us, we have planted Sessile and English Oak, Downy and Silver Birch, Sweet Chestnut, Hazel, Hawthorn, Beech and Gean Cherry. There are others too but I cannot remember what they all are. The trees have been planted in glades and with paths, in same groups and mixed. So many people turned up, they were all planted by lunchtime!
We then all went indoors for truly scrumptious soup, all homemade, and delicious donated bread, in the bowls lovingly crafted by Nicky and Jude, sold in aid of Falmouth and Penryn Welcome Refugee Families. The glass trees I have been showing you recently were all made to be sold at the same event, also in aid of the local Refugee charity.
What a beautiful thing to do – to make a forest for the future. We are in awe and delighted to have been a part of it. The happy and smiley community in the fields showed everyone’s enthusiastic pleasure at being involved. There was a sense of determination, too, in everyone, aged from 7 to 101 to plant trees to do our bit to save the planet. Please enjoy the gallery and click the photos to enlarge the picture and read the captions that will tell you the greater story.
The whips awaiting planting, all grouped and colour coded so they are planted according to The Master Plan
The start of the planting
Lots of dogs had fun!
The vertical ones are planted, the others waiting their turn
Colour coding
Ti, almost 101 years old, on her way to plant a tree in the Family’s Forest with Lin to help
Jaime Locke about to plant a tree. Jaime also writes some of the songs we sing.
Enthusiatic planter
Digging, planting and staking
Once upon a time this was a Daffodil field
View across to Crowan
The young forest almost planted
“I planted an Oak!”
Patient dog
The Lovely Mr S telling Gavin, the planner of the planting, that we have planted all the Birches
Fixing the mulch matting
Soup in the bowl we had just bought in aid of the Penryn and Falmouth Welcome to Refugees project
Bread to have with soup and beautiful singing friends
How to find the tree planting
Signs
Another sign with bunting so that people know where to go
Our bowls in their new home, our kitchen
Just had an update as we were writing this post – 875 trees planted, 85 bowls sold, £1055 raised for the Refugee families.
Gavin, Nicky, Ti and Kaja
Six years ago the first part of woodland was planted. https://mybeautfulthings.com/2013/12/10/mandela-memorial-lunch-and-tree-planting/
