Community growing project will help to restore nature in the Peak District
Work has started to find people and groups who want to be part of a project to grow trees and plants, near where they live, to help restore nature in the Peak District.
What is the community growing project?
The growing project will bring people together to grow trees and plants to support our work to create a healthy environment in the Peak District. The project has been made possible thanks to the players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
The native trees and plants grown as part of the project will help to provide homes for wildlife and improve soil health. They will also help to protect against climate change and flooding.
How will it work?
The growing project will provide an opportunity for people who want to play a part in caring for the Peak District to get involved in their own community.
We’re keen to shape the project with local communities in a way that works for them and how they want to get involved, at the same time as giving us a good supply of healthy trees and plants. The first step will be to connect with people who want to get involved to explore what is possible.
What are the benefits?
People and nature will benefit. The people who get involved to grow trees and plants will be giving nature a helping hand by supporting the National Trust’s landscape restoration. They will be making a difference to health of land in the Peak District National Park from their doorstep.
Their work will help to provide the trees and plants needed to build healthy woodlands of the future and to restore the moors. At the same time, we hope being involved in the project will improve wellbeing, increase social connection and a connection to nature.
Working in the communities closest to the land in our care, as well as those in cities and towns nearby, will also help us to get to know each other a little more.
Who can take part and how can I get involved?
It doesn’t matter if you are a growing expert, or a complete novice we would like to work with people with a range of skills, abilities and knowledge.
To start with, we would like to establish community growing project in villages in the High Peak or Hope Valley. We’d also like to work with urban communities on the fringe of the National Park and with people who might not have regular access to nature.
If you have an existing growing project in these areas or you would like to find out more about starting one with us we’d love to hear from you. You can email us at growingcommunity@nationaltrust.org.uk
There will be lots of ways to get involved as the project develops so keep checking this web page for updates.
Find out more about our work in the High Peak
Protecting the High Peak
The National Trust is a decade into a 50-year project to protect the land it looks after in the High Peak for people, nature and climate. Find out about work completed so far to restore peat and moorland, create and develop woodland, encourage and protect wildlife, and the plans to do more.
Our work at Kinder, Edale and the High Peak
Discover more about the work we’re doing to restore, protect and improve to landscape at Kinder, Edale and the High Peak, and find out how you can help us look after the land.
Record tree-planting season in the High Peak
The National Trust is celebrating a record tree-planting season in the High Peak. More than 60,000 trees have been planted since September last year bringing the total to more than 310,000 trees planted in the last ten years.
