The last week of November is National Tree Week, being the start of the tree planting season. As many of you are aware this is important to me as I have a project to plant 1000 trees to mark the year of the Normans in 2027.
I can announce that we have many trees available to us, and have received funding that will help us get to our goal, but we will need help from volunteers to do the actual planting. Working alongside Battle for Trees, we have the following:
- 400 trees to be planted in the National Trust lower lake field
- Small nut orchard planting
- 70 trees on the land of Claverham Community College
- Planting site on an area on Netherfield Hill
- Working with the Blackfriars building site to develop a nature walk including trees
- Small number of trees on BTC Telham recreation ground
Our most recent tree planting was at Lake Field, in Battle
Approximately 300 trees were planted at Lake Field with the permission of the National Trust, for the tree warden’s William 1000 project
You can also use the social media channels below to be kept informed.
Thank you
Dr Andrew Barton
Battle Tree Warden
> LinkTree
> FaceBook group
> Email list server group
> WhatsApp group
Orchard Planting
During the first year of the Tree Wardens activity (2024) we applied for funding to plant two Orchards; one at the North Trade Road recreation ground, in the shape of a clock and/or compass, surrounded by a natural English hedge providing a boundary around the orchard with four (compass) points to enter.
The second orchard is at Coronation Gardens recreation ground, a more traditional fruit orchard planted in rows.
Microwood at Coronation Gardens
Also during this year we were key in planning and planting a microwood (sometimes known as a Miyawaki forest) at the Coronation Gardens recreation ground alongside Rother District Council.
