We welcomed employees from Cooke Aquaculture this week, volunteering their time to join regular volunteers for tree guard removal duties in Brampton near Carlisle.

We visited land owned, planted and managed by the wonderful Warm Welly Company and thanks to our new friends turning up to lend a hand on their corporate volunteering day, we recovered a mountain of tree guards and ties from hundreds of saplings.

The tree guards provide vital protection for young saplings from browsing deer, burrowing voles, rabbits and all manner of creatures with a taste for young shoots and soft bark.

At further rounds of planting here and across the wider catchment, where possible, we’ll select native varieties of tree from local stock to give the saplings we plant the very best chance of success; they will inherit the genetic traits that have enabled parent trees to grow and seed in similar conditions.

In addition, we will use seeds collected locally and saplings grown by volunteers at our Eden Community Tree Nursery in Penrith to supplement trees stocks for future planting schemes.

If you’d like to find out more about volunteering with us, do visit our website. We always have a wide variety of opportunities and seasonal jobs for volunteers of all ages and abilities. Current Volunteering Opportunities