Tree Musketeers

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:
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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.

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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
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Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). Females coat their eggs in dust & sand before flinging them at solitary bee & wasp nests with rapid twists of her body. The larvae feed parasitically on the grubs. They are around March-June…learn more about trees & bees at the Tree Nursery treemusketeers.org.uk

Out in Millfields Park with tree volunteers watering and mulching the newly planted woodland. The ground is very dry. Still, the whips are growing very well.

Slo-Mo video of honey bees leaving and returning to a hive at our community tree nursery.
It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Thanks to Marlis, Sue, Jody and George for coming out on a glorious Sunday morning and watering all the trees we planted this last winter season. We’re happy to report all the trees attended to yesterday are bursting with the uplifting optimism that spring always brings with it.

Volunteers planting in the field bed Ulmus VADA (Wanoux) a hybrid cultivar elm which has resistance to Dutch elm disease. Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Help plant and grow trees. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Spotted a newt while clearing out the pond earlier this week. The Tree nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Hackney Downs park planting with volunteers on Sun 9 Mar. We planted 3 trees, a sorbus latifolia (broad-leaved whitebeam), a sorbus aucuparia (rowan) and a laburnum x watereri (laburnum) - adding to 7 which we planted back in Dec 24, so a total of 10 new trees this planting season.

Tree Musketeers Propagating, planting and caring for trees in Hackney, East London

Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join us for a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Tasks vary but can include watering, weeding, repotting, turning compost, maintaining tools, cleaning etc. Help us plant and grow trees. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

2 signs of Spring - Sphaerophoria rueppellii, a type of hoverfly nourishing itself on early blossom nectar.
Also the spidery yellow witch hazel (Hamamelis) blossom continuing its slow unfurling process before spring sets in properly. Join us at the Tree Nursery to learn more.

Spring cleaning under the Airpots which sit on sleepers, in readiness for reactivating our wonderful extensive time-saving irrigation system. The nursery is open each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. All welcome. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Loading our electric vehicle at the community tree nursery with trees, guards, and tools for another planting session at Millfields last Fri 28 Feb. The nursery is open each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. All welcome. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Did you know that we run volunteering sessions every week? We run them every Wednesday, Friday and the last Saturday of the month. Volunteer sessions start at 10am. So why not head on down and join us. For more information, please visit www.treemusketeers.org.uk

Want to get out in the fresh air and spend some time in a green space? Why not help us plant trees in Hackney. All welcome. No experience necessary. Dress for the weather. Don’t forget to sign up so we know you’re coming! www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/tree-muske...

Join us to learn about grafting fruit trees
Everyone welcome! No prior experience needed. This is a theory and practical session. You will graft two trees to be planted out in Hackney.

For more information visit our eventbrite page
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Join us! There’s still time to help us plant trees in Hackney. Come along and get involved. Everyone welcome. No experience necessary. Bring your friends and family. Dress for the weather. Sign up here www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/tree-muske...

Mistletoe - Phil Watson, a regular volunteer who has lots of plant experiments going on around the tree nursery, showed us this beautiful little clump of mistletoe - Viscum album, which has germinated on a bramley apple branch. #CommunityTreeNursery #EducatePlantGrow