Six Trees and Six Flowers News
We have applied to the Grow Wild team at Kew Gardens for a Community Project grant. If successful, we will be growing wildflowers from seed and, with support from TVBC, planting out an installation in the High Street in June. Local artists will work with our Six Trees and Six Flowers schools to create floral invitations and write stories.
We will know later this month whether we have been successful. If we are, we will be looking for volunteers to help with the sowing and growing and the garden build.
Meetings with Trees
This year will see the start of a 3-year series of flower and forest projects, one of which will allow the Six Trees and Six Flowers group of schools to visit mature woodland.
Visits to mature woodland will take place locally on the Trinley Estate as well as allowing pupils and students to venture further afield into the North Wessex Downs and will introduce the young students to woodland ecology and the biodiversity of life found there.
Our ash trees are now as under threat as once were our elms and it is predicted that within a decade the English landscape will change dramatically as we lose these magnificent trees.
One Ash
One of the projects in planning will introduce children and young people from a number of schools to One Ash tree in particular and, supported by the forestry team at the Englefield Estate, they will be present as it is felled in February 2020.
Andover takes its name from the Ash tree and this project is significant for the whole community.
TAKE ONE TREE
Over the ensuing years, the children, students and their teachers will follow the journey of the timber as it passes into the hands of craftsmen, joiners and builders… or remains behind to become part of the forest once more.
If you work with wood in any capacity and would like to become part of this project, maybe by taking ownership of a piece of the tree’s timber, large or small, we would love to hear from you.
Between the Barrows
We are delighted to be able to confirm that archaeologists from Southampton University will lead a schools and community archaeological dig, “Between the Barrows”, in mid-June. Anyone who can spare some time to help with preparing the trench is welcome to join the dig as we investigate the past beneath our feet.
To find out more about and offer to contribute to any of these projects, please contact us.