We are a small group who have been working together for about a year.

During this time we have undertaken a project to encourage fruit tree planting in peoples' gardens (81 trees being planted in January), organised for an area attached to allotments to be planted with trees ( 10 trees being planted in December) and been finding out who, what, where, and how the local councils can realistically be encouraged to plant more trees.

Having gone as far as we can in trying to get trees planted in public areas we decided to contact Transition Town Totnes to find out how they moved things forward.

We would now like to encourage you all to identify a place near where you live where a tree could in theory be planted. We will then map this out with the council to investigate against things like water, electricity etc..

To get trees planted it will require us as individuals to become 'tree guardians' with responsibility for trees sited near where we live or regularly walk. (We can organise some training). It would also be our intention to apply for grant funding to buy trees once we are in a position to do this.

So we need as many people as possible to become involved in a small or a big way....look forward to hearing from you.