On 4 August, we had our very first volunteering day here at the forest, and it could not have gone better! All of our incredible volunteers arrived at 9.30am and began pulling up weeds in the nursery, helping to clear the ground in preparation for our seed sowing.
Led by our Head Forester, Stephen, the tall weeds were removed while the volunteers learned more about the forest and the types of plants and animals that live there.
For years now, bats have had a bad reputation. Featured in British horror novels like Dracula, they are considered more than a little creepy.
However, bats are actually a vital part of a forest’s ecosystem.
With the new planting season in November fast approaching, our plans for this year have already been finalised!
But how exactly do you make a plan of action for planting a forest?
Trees and plants absorb carbon-dioxide, or CO2, which is a thick greenhouse gas that insulates the Earth’s atmosphere. Unfortunately, deforestation, the mass decline of forests for agricultural and industrial purposes, has meant that there have been increasingly less trees to absorb the growing amount of gas in the environment.