Nursery Beds in Local Schools

The concept of a School Tree Nursery was born of working with the Earth Restoration Service.

In 2011, with funding from Nafso, we helped 25 schools to build growing beds for the trees that we delivered from November 2011 through to February 2012. Each school then looked after the trees until planting time at the end of the autumn term, 9-12 months later.

Until 2019, Veolia donated 10 tons of ProGrow which we bagged and delivered to each school to condition the soil. Veolia soil conditioner, ProGrow is created from the doorstep collections of garden waste across Test Valley, as well as all the green waste collected at Recycling Centres.

This provided an excellent teaching resource, as the children were looking after the soil in which their trees were growing with a product probably made from their own gardens.

The school nursery beds initiative was badly affected by school closures during the pandemic… but we are gradually reinstating them.

Can you help…?

Some schools are very lucky in the help they have from parents, grandparents and green-fingered staff… others not so.

We actively seek gardeners with a few hours a month to spare to help teachers and their pupils with their tree nurseries.

If you can help and are interested in finding out more we would love to hear from you. Contact us here.