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STO NATIONAL TREE WEEK POST – APPEAL FOR IMAGES OF THE SAPLINGS YOU PLANTED

Dear oak rescuers & planters! Happy UK National Tree Week – 23rd November to 1st December It’s been a while, and sending tender greetings in the midst of Storm Bert battering this Island…. to mark nearly 5 years since we got this campaign underway in the midst of UK lockdown in 2020, and in honourContinue reading “STO NATIONAL TREE WEEK POST – APPEAL FOR IMAGES OF THE SAPLINGS YOU PLANTED”

‘A Fallen Oak’ by Rosie May Jones

With grateful thanks to Rosie for allowing us to share this. August 2024 http://www.rosiemayjones.com@rosie_may.jones

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 workContinue reading “Oaks – the most powerful plant of all”

‘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, andContinue reading “‘A Spell in The Forest’”

‘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 ofContinue reading “‘A Spell In The Forest’”

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 theContinue reading “We’ve saved oaks!”

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: toContinue reading “Update: the final 50,000”

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 finalContinue reading “Update, March 14th 2021”

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 ourContinue reading “Ancient & Sacred Trees Network”

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 (aContinue reading “Herman Hesse on what trees teach us….”