Following the Landscape, Gardens and Health network's successful September conference at Penny Brohn UK, Colin Porter returned to plant a tree on our behalf. 'We wanted to find a way of saying thank you to all our new friends and colleagues. What better way than to add another tree to their beautiful garden' he says.
'We found a perfect spot with views out to rolling fields and trees. Here, not far from an Atlas Cedar planted by The Prince of Wales in 2016, we planted a Japanese Cherry, Prunus 'Mount Fuji'.' 'A couple of the garden team asked me when next year's conference will be. It's not something we've talked about yet. But ask me again in the new year. If we can find a few more people to help, we might consider it. Do get in touch if you'd like to be involved.'
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At Holt Wood we are working towards sustainable cultivation and harvest of medicinal trees and shrubs. Our project is based on a two acre site in North Devon, UK which was previously a conifer plantation.
The Woodland Trust are calling for a Charter for Trees, Woods and People. Their campaign for 2016 will start with the value to nature (Spring), then to health, mental wellbeing and fitness (Summer) and then to the economy and livelihoods (Autumn). The trust’s campaign will be a series of incremental messages, backed up with studies, reports and expert articles, increasing people’s understanding that trees are hugely valuable.
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/publications/2014/05/lifes-better-with-trees/ Conversations about healing trees by Colin Porter
Having been trained at Kew in the 1980’s form of scientific rationality, the more left-field ideas of natural harmony or sustainability found at places like Findhorn or the Centre for Alernative Technology in North Wales should have passed me by. The majority of people I worked with seemed to be reassured by reasoned argument and, as far as I was concerned, scientific rationality provided a reliable platform for the day job. But our day jobs were only part of the story. |
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