We’ve planted so many trees with so many different groups over the years. Here are some examples of our favourite projects!
Sugar Lane, Adlington
We planted 40 Damson trees in a new hedge accessible from a public right of way and planted around 60 wild cherry, hornbeam and elderflower from Forestry Commission surplus trees.
Paul Griffiths, Wrenbury
Paul is committed environmentalist and we have assisted him replanting the orchard at his farm where only one tree remained. We have donated: 70 mixed plums including 35 Damson, 12 Purple Pershore Plum, 6 Jacobs Plum, three Greengage and one rare Magnum Bonum Plum and a mixture of 12 grafted traditional apple trees.
Phil Smallwood, Middlewich
Phil is a traditional farmer who has resisted many of the modern changes to farming he sees as unsustainable practices out of touch with the land. On his farm we have planted 65 Damson and Greengage trees in the hedgerows and have donated three grafted apple trees to replant in his orchard.
Gandey’s Circus
Our largest planting project to date, Carol Gandey runs a travelling circus from her base in rural Cheshire. In an unloved and unused field we have planted approximately 100 Damson and plum trees and eight grafted apple trees, mainly of the old Cheshire cooking variety Minshull Crab, once a popular variety in the North West.
Rogue planting in the wilds of the Mersey Valley, Manchester
We have donated dozens of damson, plum and sloe trees to the friends of Turns Moss who manage Turn’s Moss, a large area of playing fields and open park land in Chorlton, Manchester. We have also planted thirty Damson and plum in rough pasture on the flood plain of the river Mersey in Stretford, where the trees should provide fruit for the local community.
Lifestyle Centre Macclesfield
We’ve planted 15 Damson and Plum with the Lifestyle Centre Macclesfield where Birgit works with adults with learning difficulties. They have been developing a fruit and veg garden there and the guys are very keen growers who we love helping out!
Kings School, Macclesfield
We we’re kindly given the freedom to plant an unused part of the new school site, where we grafted apple trees, 12 damsons, and the beginnings of a wildlife hedge using 10 local elderflower from cuttings we propagated and 45 sloe saplings from an ancient hedge at Claremont farm.
Support our project by buying a tree-planting voucher!
How does it work?
You buy the voucher and we will plant the tree for you! Your donation will go towards planting a traditional Damson, Plum, Apple, Pear or wild elderberry. At the end of the tree planting season we will give you an overview of what trees we have planted and where and we will let you know about trees we have planted in places with public access.
So you will be the first to know about the foraging spots of the future!
For just £10 per tree you are already making the difference!