On 31st Nov & 1st Dec 2019 we’re planning to plant a new woodland of 500 trees. This is above St Ives Community Orchard, on the lower slopes of Penbeagle Hill and we will call this future woodland Koos Govenek – Hope Wood in Cornish.
The vision for the site is to enhance biodiversity by creating Woodland with wildflower glades (where there is largely bracken now) and to tackle climate change by growing more trees. We are planting native trees – oak, hazel, holly, alder, elder, hawthorn, downy birch as well as dog rose, field rose and broom, all recommended by The Wildlife Trust and native Cornish trees.
We are getting most of our trees free from E-forest but are also buying in larger trees for which we need funds. This will establish the Woodland more quickly.
Tree planting will be Saturday Nov 30th 11am (the Woodland Trust Big Climate Fightback tree planting day) and Sunday 1st Dec, same time. Meet at the shed in the orchard at 11am. #EveryTreeCounts
We’ve been busy clearing the area over 5 weeks, every Sunday and a couple Tuesday’s too in preparation for the planting as well as clearing a new path through head-high brambles so that we have a short cut from the orchard to the new woodland. It’s quite a magical new pathway as it goes through a beautiful old ivy-covered woodland, previously hidden to all.
