Impressive support for our Tree Nursery

Having a Tree Nursery of our own, on land kindly provided by Andy Gray (regenerative farmer at Elston) is great: it allows us to grow seedlings to replace trees as needed in our various plantations (and they do need replacing, there is a regrettable rate of attrition…)

Volunteers in our Tree Team have worked hard to provide the nursery with the maintenance and TLC it needs - but this last winter we could not manage to keep up with all the work required.

So we were extremely lucky to be approached during the early spring by Morgan Sindall, the engineering company repairing local railway bridges, offering us help as part of their Community Programme.

They came on Friday 4th April - six staff from Morgan Sindall plus three from their partners Keystone Environmental - and worked with us for a day, clearing, planting, watering, fencing and protecting. They generously provided a whole package of support: muscle power, new young seedlings, tree guards, mesh and a lorry load of mulch which had to be wheel-barrowed into the nursery (with camaraderie, cookies and lunches thrown in).

On behalf of Sustainable Crediton, I'd like to express huge thanks to Morgan Sindall and Keystone Environmental for all the support they provided. The nursery is now fit for purpose again!

Caroline Romijn, Tree Team