Oaks – the most powerful plant of all
Now tree-planting season is mainly over here in the UK, and we’re finally getting some bursts of rain to ensure our lovingly planted oaks and others are getting some water, I’ve been researching and reading again, around plant connections and the underworld/overworld life of trees and the living vegetal world. Have just discovered the work…
‘A Spell in The Forest’
Save The Oaks hosted author Roselle Angwin to launch her wondrous new book ‘A Spell in The Forest’ (pub. Moon Books) on the eve of Thursday 1st July, and the link to the recording is below. My word from the book is ‘intertwinement’ – she weaves together deep mythology of humans living with trees, and…
‘A Spell In The Forest’
Now the planting is all done for the season – and in between checking on the oaks and other trees that they are getting water in between these climate fluctuations of hot & dry & wet & cold – we at Save The Oaks are planning some more engagement events to strengthen our bonds of…
We’ve saved oaks!
Together, we have shown we can come together as a creative human network, respond to potential ecocide, receive, distribute and plant many thousands of beautiful trees, ensuring future forests of oak are now growing on this Island – as a radical act of love for our planet. This campaign started in April 2020, in the…
Update: the final 50,000
We are absolutely thrilled to share that as of today, we are into the second & final tranche of oak saplings being rescued: they are as we speak being delivered to collection points across the UK – Calstock, on the Devon/Cornwall border, and to Freshford, outside Bath. Then, later this week and into next: to…
Update, March 14th 2021
We’re going ahead with our original aim of rescuing as many oaks as we can, and have been negotiating with the Nursery to get the final 50,000. We have been distracted by other trees, and finding land, and admin, as well as busy lockdown lives, but the good news is that this week the final…
Ancient & Sacred Trees Network
We have a plethora of posts coming to you this coming week – as the spring sap is rising, many oaks have been or are about to be planted, and we’re planning our future hopes for this campaign, our friend Amanda over at The Ancient & Sacred Trees Network has posted this today about our…
Herman Hesse on what trees teach us….
25/2/2021 We’re almost at the end of our first tranche of distributing the saplings, and once we’ve recouped & drawn breathe, we’ll update here with what’s been done, where, and by whom, and our future plans – for now, we wanted to share this extraordinary article, with deep gratitude to Maria at Brain Pickings (a…
Save The Oaks Rob Mcbride free webinar on the great trees of Offa’s Dyke.
Our very own Tree hunter Rob McBride, volunteer from Save The Oaks talking trees at this free online webinar, sign up below.Great trees of Offa’s Dyke and Polish mothers on tree stumps. Wednesday 13 January, 6pm (UK) With Rob McBride and Cecylia Malik 👉 Register here https://bit.ly/3nlZKdi
Save the Oaks: ‘We’re rescuing 30K oak tree saplings – but can do more with your help’
Following news reports earlier this year that 750K oak saplings were facing destruction as the UK Government had reneged on promises of a huge national tree planting scheme, Extinction Rebellion Rewilding’s Save the Oaks campaign today announced that it has put in an initial order for 30,000 oak saplings having crowdfunded more than £10K so far. [1] [2] …
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