Next planting events 14th February & 21st March
The Woodland Trust plans to plant 600,000 trees at Heartwood Forest over the next few years and hopes to involve lots of people and corporate partners at every stage. Details of next planting event here (PDF).
See November Forest Update PDF here.
The creation of Heartwood Forest is underway
After many months of planning and hard work the growing phase started and the whole community celebrated by planting trees in November 2009.
Lady Verulam, the patron of the project was there to say and few words about how special this project is and plant one of the very first trees, as well as the Woodland Trust’s chief executive, Sue Holden and three children who have taken part in the countrywide Tree For All tree planting project.
Everyone joined in and had a go at planting trees. It was a fantastic day, the weather was kind and nearly 5,000 trees were planted. If you missed out on this event then why not come along to one of the next events as detailed above.
Heartwood Forest
More background information here from the Woodland Trust.
What can I do to help the project?
Visit the Heartwood website to find out more at: www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/heartwood
You can donate online to The Woodland Trust here.
Woodland Trust Documents
Information Sheet with pictures (word 418k)
Forest Map small (gif 34k)
Forest Concept Map large (gif 173k)
Forest Facts, the Sandridge Forest will be:
Bigger than Whipsnade Zoo (600 acres)
Bigger than Sherwood Forest Country Park (450 acres)
Bigger than Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens combined (625 acres)
Twice the size of Regents Park (410 acres)
