Tree Musketeers

Another amazing planting day on Gascoyne estate, thank you to the incredible beings who came through, always a delight to see you wonderful locals get involved with keeping our beloved borough so beautiful. Thank you for spending your Saturday with us, always an honour 💜🌳 #Londontrees #Plantatree

Join us next Saturday planting new trees in Springfield Park.
Starting at 10am by the containers (///study.trees.tones), if you're late find us scattered around the park at a few different planting sites.
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We had a great time on Sunday, we felt as blessed as the trees to have so many people join us in our wassail. 🍎
Big thanks to the amazing performances by Morris folk choir & the Feorin band.
Join us next year for our #Wassail, or our next event this year will be our Open day on the 10th May.

Thank you to everyone who came down to the nursery this year! 🎉🎉Christmas eve will be our last volunteering day of 2025 🌱
Seasonal wishes to all!
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Have you seen our new Documentary by the Good Side?
The Hackney Citizen have published an article about it! They came along to our Tree planting on Hackney Downs and it was great to show them what the Tree Musketeers do

www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2025/12/09/film-celebrate-tree-lovers-green/

We'll be holding a Wassail in our Orchard on the 4th January. All are welcome.
The wonderful Annie Moreton will be guiding us through the traditions, with songs and music by @morrisfolkchoir.bsky.social and the Feorin band.

#wassail #communityorchards #trees #Hackneytrees #communitytreenurseries

We had a great Partnership Launch with Hillier’s last week and we can't wait to share Tree growing & Tree caring knowledge with them.
We had the perfect weather to plant some of HIllier's trial climate resistant trees on the marshes, the wonderful artist Stik came along to plant one of the trees.

At the Nursery we have been doing seed identification, separation & sorting.
Including the Pride of India - Koelreuteria paniculata, Liquidambar - styraciflua & the Common Alder - Alnus glutinosa.
Soaking in the bowl are Algerian oak - Quercus canariensis

Photos by Pete Burke

#nationaltreeweek

The week after next, Saturday 29th, but we're open every Wednesday and Friday 10-3pm if you can come down during the week.

YouTube video by Stezzo Films 🌱The best volunteering I've done in London 🌳This is real community action!#UrbanForests

We're open next Saturday 10am-3pm, come down and volunteer, you can find us next to the Hackney Marshes Centre on Homerton Road, E9 5PF.
Credit to Stezzo films for making this awesome video showing what it's like to volunteer at the nursery
www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVIf...
#volunteer #community

Join the Tree Musketeers for our Tree Planting in December!
We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th.
Sign up on our Eventbrite page:
www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers
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Holy shrub! Tree Musketeers are blessed to have just won the National Lottery Community Fund! What a magical start to the season! All going towards our Growing Hackney project which will be running throughout the next 2 planting seasons, winter 2025-26 & 2026-27. #nationallottery

We're looking at pollinators in the Nursery - This is a male Common Blue butterfly - polyomatus Icarus. The hindwing of both sexes have a row of reddish/orange spots.
📷 photo credit: Pete Burke
#hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators

Arboriculturalist job advert

We are recruiting!
Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community.
Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025
www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs
#Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney

Our AGM is on Saturday 27 September. Come along to the Tree Nursery 13.30 for a 14.00 start. Hear about what we’ve achieved in the last 12 months and our future plans. Followed by afternoon tea.

Our Apple Day was in October but the apples are falling now… so we’ve moved it forward three weeks

Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September.
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Another one to add to our collection!
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Help raise £750 to put on the Tree Circle Cinema 2025 - a free, annual, community event in Clapton, Hackney – JustGiving Crowdfunding Iʼm raising money to put on the Tree Circle Cinema 2025 - a free, annual, community event in Clapton, Hackney. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

We’re organising the Tree Circle Cinema, the free community film showings in South Millfields Park, on 6 Sept. We hope you’ll join us. We need to raise enough to cover the cost of putting on the event… please support us if you can:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to christine@treemusketeers.org.uk by 27 June. There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to christine@treemusketeers.org.uk There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

Come along to our plant sale on Sunday next week (1 June) from 11.00. We’re raising money to fund the Tree Circle Cinema… the annual free community film screening held in the circle of trees in South Millfields.
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Ecological music artist, Phoebe Coco, singing at the tree nursery Open Day yesterday. Absolutely beautiful.
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Amazing artwork on our lockup by landscape-graffiti painter Joe Webster at our Open Day yesterday
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Going to the #HackneyMoves festival this Saturday? Pop in to the Tree Nursery Open Day on the other side of the Hackney Marshes Centre. It’s a very special place. And a very short walk. And part of the @urbantreefest.bsky.social.
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We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate.
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Black-veined Moth by Butterfly Conservation/Mark Parsons. The image shows a creamy white moth with fine black lines across its wings, perched on a plant stem against a grassy green background

Job Alert! 🌿🐛🦋📢 Could you be @savebutterflies.bsky.social new Head of Ecology Services? Leading and building our role providing advice and technical services, this role puts you at the heart of our nature recovery work! Please apply or DM for a chat about it. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Come and celebrate Urban Tree Week at the tree nursery Open Day on Sat 17 May 11-16.00… or join us on Wednesday or Friday for tree tours of the nursery. @urbantreefest.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social

YouTube video by WePlanet Australia The climate solution that is being ignored // ft. George Monbiot.

The elephant in the climate space is the cow - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact.

But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act.

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Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni) overwinter 7 months then feed up on spring flowers. The female leads males an upward dance before tumbling down to mate. She usually lays on the 2 buckthorn (rhamnus) species, purging & alder, the caterpillars' food
#insectThursday
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