Category: Participation
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Acts of Tree Kindness: Celebration
So today, after all the noticing, watering, making space, and the other Acts of Tree Kindess, we are calling on you to celebrate trees! How can you show thanks to a local tree and highlight its presence for others? One way is to create a small sign, artwork or other tree decoration. Consider making your…
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Acts of Tree Kindness: Trees as Sentient Beings
Our understanding of the capacity for trees to feel and to communicate has changed a lot in recent years. Today we share a little of this information on tree intelligence, and ask you to allow that to inform the way you relate to trees in future. Have a look at our earlier post ‘Among the…
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Acts of Tree Kindness: Growing Food
Today we are asking people to help spread awareness of the value of trees as producers of food in urban areas. What fruit have you grown or gathered within an urban area? What food or drink have you made as a result? What food in your kitchen has come from a tree? Can you collect…
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Acts of Tree Kindness: Homes and Habitats
Trees can be extremely valuable for other organisms by providing them with places to live, feed and breed. In return, different wildlife can be of benefit to trees in various ways. For instance, birds distributing seeds in their droppings, or worms bringing decaying leaves down underground and enriching the soil. Today we are asking you…
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Acts of Tree Kindness: Making Space
Trees in an urban environment depend on people for their care. Newly planted trees need to be watered, mulched and staked. But what about after that? Today we are asking you to consider how to make space for trees, so that they can develop in as healthy an environment as possible and reach their full…
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Acts of Tree Kindness: Food and Water
In the first two posts we looked at how we can stop and notice the trees that are around us, and use creative ways to record and share them with others. Today we focus on some practical steps you can take to make sure that the trees near where you live can survive and grow.…
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