I am delighted to announce that i have now achieved 75,000 members of my facebook forest group. For those who don't know about it, this is a group designed to create eco awareness and for every 50 members, Ecotopia.co.uk are donating a tree to community projects.
75,000 members mean 1500 trees. We have donated trees to many projects:
The first Facebook Forest is being planted on a small plot of land just outside Minchinhampton on the Edge of what is to be the first carbon neutral market garden. Lucy Offord who is creating the market garden welcomes the Facebook Forest saying how this exciting project compliments the development she is carrying out with the market garden. The first site will have room for hundreds of trees. These will vary from year old to more mature saplings to help establish these new woodlands/ forests.Ecotopia will be looking to establish further Forests alongside other such environmental projects
We shall be supporting the Honeycombe Project by a donation of trees.The Honeycomb Project is a community interest company that creates eco awareness within communities in the UK and provides sustainable human habitats by following nature's patterns . For those that don't know this is a not for profit company somewhere between a charity and company. Assets of land, buildings,tools etc can never be sold for the profits of the directors, ever! They are protected by an "asset lock" which means any land they purchase will always belong to the community we serve! So all land bought for community farms will be held in "perpetuity" which means it will always be a community farm/orchard/allotment.See http://www.be-the-solution.co.uk/ for more information
We are also helping supporting anti social behaviour projects throughout Gloucestershire -watch this space! We are looking for more community projects to support so contact me on 07885975671 or on sarahobbin@btinternet.com for more info
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