Community Tree Planting

A pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) thriving at Suie Fields community smallholding in Galloway in May 2025. This beautiful landscape was almost completely deforested to make way for pasture and now this is one of many projects in the area to try to bring back some areas of woodland

Great to see this update from Suie Fields in Galloway. These trees were planted in January 2023 and are now really beginning to thrive. They form a woodland edge to a community smallholding and provide some very welcome tree cover to this largely deforested landscape.

A 2025 drone clip of one of the planting sites at Huntingdon, planted in March 2024. This is at the entrance to the site, so borders the busy dual-carriageways that criss-cross the area. When mature this will provide a much-needed woodland edge to the site and be valued by people

Great to be back at Huntingdon checking up on the 5,100 trees planted in March 2024. They're looking fantastic - the rainy summer last year has meant we've got very high survival rates - over 98%!

Great to be up at the Lowther Estate - one of the largest nature restoration projects in the UK. Thanks to everyone for supporting us!

So nice to get out to Northern Ireland and to visit past projects. These Alder trees just love the wet weather and are really thriving!

The trees are really thriving. One of the best parts of my job is going back to past projects and seeing the trees that were planted a few years ago.
Yesterday we went over to the Blue Cross in Burford, Oxfordshire to monitor the trees planted in 2022.

Now they've spent the

On the Lowther Estate in the Lake District, you can clearly see the effect of centuries of deforestation. A few years ago, there were no trees in this huge field!

Today were are seeing trees are being planted alongside a naturalised river. The river is being left to re-establish

Fantastic to visit the Lowther Estate in the Lake District and see the newly planted trees kindly supported by Tree Nation. After centuries of settlement and agriculture, this area has been largely deforested, with dramatic declines in wildlife populations.

This large-scale planting

Our longstanding partner Nature and Nurture Activities have completed their woodland planting at the Blue Cross animal rehoming centre in Burford, West Oxfordshire. Thanks to support from Tree Nation, a wide variety of native species, 1100 in total, have been planted to restock

An overview of our planting project on the Isle of Arran. This is a community-farm, that produces organic food for local people to buy. Scottish islands are very dependent on imports and this can be very expensive, as well as disconnecting people from the food system.

Planting

Great to get some trees planted on the Isle of Arran. This is a very windy place!

Here local schoolchildren are helping plant shelterbelts at the very southern point of the island, providing shelter for organic food production as well as fantastic habitat for wildlife.

Very excited to be lining up our tree planting projects for the coming season! So far we have project from Kent to Stirling, and many places inbetween, totalling 50,000 trees.

A thriving oak tree (Quercus robur) at Black Cap, East Sussex (September 2023)

Great to go and visit this project at Black Cap, East Sussex. This is an extraordinary landscape, right on the South Downs escarpment.

This project is all about connecting up patches of woodland. As you can see from the map above, we have planted out 40 metres from the hedgerows