Trees for Chester
Trees for Chester is a working group looking at planting fruit and nut trees on publically accessible land, as a way of providing a free and self managing food source in the future, while also raising public awareness of the issues around peak oil, climate change and the economic downturn.
Its activities will be threefold: first, it will acquire and distribute a variety of young food-producing trees to several local public and charitable organisations. Second, it will begin to propagate food-producing trees. Seeds for this stage have already been collected, propagation space has already been donated, and we are fortunate to have the involvement of a local agro-forestry expert. Third, it will seek to inspire further involvement by the local community and businesses and to share knowledge of tree foods, tree propagation and care skills with voluntary ‘tree guardians’, thus enabling the project to expand and to become self-sustaining.
For more information on trees for chester contact
transitionchester@yahoo.co.uk
