Our friends over at 9Trees have planted 900 trees, and now spring is here they’re in need of help with some important tree maintenance work.
A forester joked "Planting a tree is step 42 of forestry", and it is by no means the last step. These young saplings need all the water and nutrients they can get, but grass and weeds will fight them for every bit, growing tall and competing with the saplings for light too. By putting these mulch mats down, it will kill off the grass and weeds, allowing the sapling to grow big and strong. Creating mulch matts from cardboard, woodchip, and sheeps wool means that after a few years it will have all biodegraded into nothing, leaving no trace of ever being there, other than a happy healthy tree.
The work is not too taxing but many hands make light work. The cardboard also has to cut the cardboard so there will be a mix of work. You’re welcome even if you can only attend for half a day, it will still positively affect the ability for this new woodland to host a variety of wildlife and create an amazing habitat over the next 50 years!
Please bring a mallet/hammer if you have one, and we’ll get this important work done in no time!
Please sign up to volunteer through our Eventbrite page so we know how many people are coming. COVID-19 is still a concern so we have limited the number of violunteers able to come to the event. This map is here purely to help decide if you can make it.
Covid-19 Guidance
At all times it is essential to make sure that you follow government guidance, bearing in mind that local guidance for the planting site may be different than where you are traveling from. All of us have a part to play in reducing the risk of spreading coronavirus.
Please ensure that you keep at least 2 meters distance from anyone who's not in your household group. Two meters is bigger than you might expect: think the length of a typical cow. Given that we'll be outdoors we'll have lots of space and so we ask that you err on the side of leaving more distance than the minimum.
If any of our volunteers gets too close to you for your comfort then please don't hesitate to ask for more space. Likewise if someone asks you for more space then please be accommodating, even if you feel you're not within 2 meters. It's important to us that all of our volunteers feel safe at all times.
COVID-19 questionnaire
If you have to cancel at last minute as a COVID-19 precaution then it's totally understandable; all we ask is that you let us know.
Have you had a dry, persistent cough within the last seven days? Have you had a fever, however mild, within the last seven days?
Have you noticed a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste?
Have you been in close contact with anyone displaying above symptoms, or anyone with a confirmed case of coronavirus, within the last fourteen days? This includes any of your household members.
Have you received a letter from your GP stating that you are in a high or moderate risk category? Or do you fall within the category of clinically extremely vulnerable?
Are you in a quarantine period after traveling internationally?
Do you need to car-share with anyone who is outside of your household "bubble" in order to attend?
Are you residing in an area which has renewed restrictions on travel or the number of people from other households which you can meet?
If you answer "yes" to any of these questions then please do not attend.