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More Trees Now runs (almost) entirely on volunteers. An easy way to share communication tips to make your event a success is therefore indispensible! With this information, tips, tools, links and downloads on this page, we will help you get started as best we can.
Mobilising people to join your event or local sapling rescue group is essential. Every person joining in adds about a 50 to 100 saved saplings with every event! With this page we want to help you get started. If you have any questions or want our support, email us at info@moretreesnow.eco
Learning how to organise a harvest day: the moment excess saplings are saved – is like riding a bike. Once learned, you never forget. You can choose to keep it a small affair, and go with a few friends in the local neighbourhood park or make is a sapling rescue mission and invite as many people as you can muster. Follow these steps and you will be all set. Let’s save some trees!
A Tree Hub is a collection point for saved saplings. It can be as big or small as you would like it to be. With the Tree Planner you can easily organise a free tree give-away. That is how saplings get a second chance, thanks to you! Follow these simple steps, and review the whole manual here.
You’ve picked up your saplings or you want to come pick up a sapling. But what then? In this manual we start at step 0, and we will walk you through the whole process of planting a tree: from choosing your trees, to picking them, planting them, and taking care of them.
Click here for the whole manual.
The forestry commission has created a wonderful tool that recommends species of trees that fit your plantin location. Try it out here.
Download the buds-chart here from Discover the Wild!
Discover the Wild has many more charts, such as leaves, wasps and other small animals. Check it out here.
Here you’ll find all pictures, flyers, brochures, posters and other imaging to make your event a success.
Sent them to a local paper!
On [date] More Trees Now [locality/groupname] are rolling up their sleeves to plant some trees. More Trees Now saves saplings that grow in places where they cannot mature. These saplings are given away for free to anyone who wants to plant more trees. Excess saplings are a source of home-grown, native and sustainable planting material. The method accelerates tree planting and thus combats climate change, restores biodiversity and turns climate concerns into climate action. All are invited to join the sapling rescue mission.
Enclose a nice picture, always include the photographer. This one is made by Eslin Cohen Stuart.
Anyone can join
Thanks to local volunteers the More Trees Now method has come to (locality). In collaboration with (forester) we can save saplings that should be/ will be removed due to [state reason]. Anyone can join the sapling rescue campaign. You can join yourself, with your friends, family, as a team-building exercise with your colleagues, your local community group or school class. The method is simple and easy to learn for young and old(er). No experience with trees needed, we’ll walk you through it every step of the way. Enthusiasm is all you need!
Title
What makes your harvest day special? Or are you organising this in the name of/ with another local group, a community woodland, or another NGO, tell us something about it!
More Trees Now
Every tree creates hundreds of saplings a year. Most of these saplings will not reach adulthood. They either disappear naturally due to competition, or they are removed in routine forest management. They grow in bogs, on a hiking path, or they are thinned to create space for other types of plants and trees. These surplus saplings are a source of diverse, ecological, free and native trees. By transplanting these saplings locally one can restore ecosystems and create more green areas elsewhere. More Trees Now is an initiative based on Meer Bomen Nu, a Dutch initiative which has inspired a mass volunteering movement that has transplanted over 1.4 million saplings in three winters in the most densely populated country in Europe. The aim is to make tree planting accessible and free for all who are concerned about biodiversity loss and deforestation.
Note for the press (not for publication):
For more information contact [name], [email], [phone number]
On [date] Tree Hub [locality/groupname] are giving away [number] trees and bushes for free. These young trees and bushes are saved saplings and shrubs from places where they were going to be removed, wither or shredded. More Trees Now has saved saplings that grow in places where they cannot mature. Excess saplings are a source of home-grown, native and sustainable planting material. The method accelerates tree planting and thus combats climate change, restores biodiversity and turns climate concerns into climate action. Everyone who wants a tree can sign up below.
Enclose a nice picture, always include the photographer.
Free trees for everyone
Thanks to local volunteers the More Trees Now method has come to (locality). The saplings that will be given away are between 50 – 150 cm long cuttings are around 200 cm long. All saplings where saved from places where they cannot survive. The Tree Hub currently has [number] species in stock. We recommend people to visit the website where there are handy tools to choose a tree that fits your soil type, and a manual on how to safely transport and plant your tree.
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Say something about your Tree Hub. Is this the first give-away? Have you also harvested the saplings? Include quotes from involved volunteers, speak to your motivation. Are you organising this in the name of/ with another local group, a community woodland, or another NGO, tell us something about it!
More Trees Now
Every tree creates hundreds of saplings a year. Most of these saplings will not reach adulthood. They either disappear naturally due to competition, or they are removed in routine forest management. They grow in bogs, on a hiking path, or they are thinned to create space for other types of plants and trees. These surplus saplings are a source of diverse, ecological, free and native trees. By transplanting these saplings locally one can restore ecosystems and create more green areas elsewhere. More Trees Now is an initiative based on Meer Bomen Nu, a Dutch initiative which has inspired a mass volunteering movement that has transplanted over 1.4 million saplings in three winters in the most densely populated country in Europe. The aim is to make tree planting accessible and free for all who are concerned about biodiversity loss and deforestation.
Note for the press (not for publication):
For more information contact [name], [email], [phone number]
On [date] More Trees Now [locality/groupname] are rolling up their sleeves to plant some trees. At/with [planting location] young trees (saplings) will be planted to create [a forest/hedgerow/etc]. The saplings used are saved saplings. They have been rescued this winter from places where they cannot mature by volunteers from More Trees Now. Excess saplings are a source of home-grown, native and sustainable planting material. This new tree-scape combats climate change, restores biodiversity and turns climate concerns into climate action. All are invited to join.
Enclose a nice picture, always include the photographer. This one is made by Brendan Smith, at Terryland Forest Park.
Anyone can join
Thanks to local volunteers the More Trees Now method has come to (locality). You can join yourself, with your friends, family, as a team-building exercise with your colleagues, your local community group or school class. We will be planting [number] of trees to create [name treescape] at [place/farm/park]. These will include [list of species]. Enthusiasm is all you need!
Title
What makes your planting day special? Or are you organising this in the name of/ with another local group, a community woodland, or another NGO, tell us something about it! Include a motivation from the planting location and a vision from the future, paint them a picture with words and inspire people to follow your example.
More Trees Now
Every tree creates hundreds of saplings a year. Most of these saplings will not reach adulthood. They either disappear naturally due to competition, or they are removed in routine forest management. They grow in bogs, on a hiking path, or they are thinned to create space for other types of plants and trees. These surplus saplings are a source of diverse, ecological, free and native trees. By transplanting these saplings locally one can restore ecosystems and create more green areas elsewhere. More Trees Now is an initiative based on Meer Bomen Nu, a Dutch initiative which has inspired a mass volunteering movement that has transplanted over 1.4 million saplings in three winters in the most densely populated country in Europe. The aim is to make tree planting accessible and free for all who are concerned about biodiversity loss and deforestation.
Note for the press (not for publication):
For more information contact [name], [email], [phone number]
The Dutch NGO Urgenda (which won the world-first climate case) has become Netherlands’ second largest tree planting organisation within three years and now moves to the UK. With a combination of professional staff and tools plus thousands of volunteers we can save trees that would otherwise die and thus scale up tree planting activities. The project is called More Trees Now and starts this autumn.
The UK’s woodlands are in decline. Climate change, storms, droughts, pests, and single-species and exotic tree-planting schemes have decimated the native biodiversity. As a result, tree planting schemes are booming, yet we hear there are ‘not enough’ trees which halts large–scale efforts. A new campaign aims to remedy that by using another source: the forest itself. In the last week of November, a series of pilots starts that will work with the transplantation method. Native saplings in the forest that grow in areas where they cannot mature are transplanted to places where they will thrive to create new green areas. Originally developed in the Netherlands as a solution for tree shortages and slow-moving tree planting schemes, the method is unlimitedly scalable in all countries where saplings of native trees are abundant, and the autumn and winter is cold enough.
More Trees Now
Every tree creates hundreds of saplings a year. Most of these saplings will not reach adulthood. They either disappear naturally due to competition, or they are removed in routine forest management. They grow in bogs, on a hiking path, or they are thinned to create space for other types of plants and trees. These surplus saplings are a source of diverse, ecological, free and native trees. By transplanting these saplings locally one can restore ecosystems and create more green areas elsewhere. More Trees Now is an initiative based on Meer Bomen Nu, a Dutch initiative which has inspired a mass volunteering movement that has transplanted over 1.4 million saplings in three winters in the most densely populated country in Europe. The aim is to make tree planting accessible and free for all who are concerned about biodiversity loss and deforestation.
Pilots to start this November
This November the inventors of the transplantation method, who’ve applied it successfully throughout the Netherlands, will join local initiatives in Wakelyns, Corby, Hollyhead and Carrifran in rolling out the first transplantation pilots in the UK. Part of the program includes events where anyone can join in transplanting native trees from areas where they cannot mature to areas where they can. There will also be lectures on the IT system that the organisation has built. They have created an online tool which allows for a decentralized organisation where anyone can organize events and register and track saplings from their old to their new destination. The system will be freely available throughout the UK with these pilots.
Note for the press (not for publication)
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Write to your local forester, tree NGO, municipality and much more with these standard letters.
Place, date
Concerning: More Trees Now in our [county/municipality/etc.]
Dear [….]
We need your help planting more trees. We are currently approaches 3 degrees celcius of average global warming in our earth. Our natural environment and all that lives in it, is in decline. Planting trees is one of the easiest, cheapest and natural ways of combating both crises. Providing free trees for your constituents can help mitigate the climate crisis, adapt your [city/county/etc] to changing weather circumstances, and reverse the biodiversity crisis.
At the same time, many counties experience the same problem: it is difficult or expensive to plant trees. Processes may be slow, or trees evoke strong and at time contradictory opinions among the public, or there are not enough trees. The More Trees Now method provides a solution.
More Trees Now is a quick, cost-efficiënt and community-based method to plant more trees by offering the excess in young saplings to the public. A method developed in the Netherlands, there is has successfully transplanted almost 2 million free saplings to community members all over the country. It now has chapters in Germany, the UK and Ireland where pilot projects rescue and replant hundreds of thousands of trees. We want to start it in [county/place name].
Our method: circular forestry uses nature as its nursery
Our woodlands, forest and parks produce billions of descendants every year. Million of young trees, shrubs and bushes grow in places where they wither, due to lack of light or space, or they are removed in routine forest management. They grow too close to a walking path, a peat bog, or other type of landscape where saplings do not belong. We collect these saplings, cuttings an so on, by working with foresters and mobilising the community, and give these away for free. In a new, appropriate place, these saplings can grow into mature trees.
Anyone can join: the method is accessible and educational
On a ‘harvest day’ we collect the excess saplings for a second chance. It provides all participants with a new perspective on nature, it’s abundance and ecology. Subsequently, it turns climate concerns into climate action. These collected saplings are given away immediately or temporarily stored in ‘Tree Hubs’. A Tree Hub can develop into the motor of circular greenery, and a community gathering place. Farmers may choose free saplings and shrubs to create hedgerows and agroforestry systems, one can green neighbourhoods, infrastructure, schoolyards, and all in the public is free to pick up a tree for their own garden. We work based on trust, no one needs to sign difficult contracts, paperwork or other complicated measures. One simply signs up in the Tree Planner system. Due to this accessibility, all trees find a spot.
Ecologically responsible
The saplings rescued are natures’ excess. This has many ecological advantages. They are grown without extra land, effort, artificial fertilisers, herbicides or other resources, making them exceptionally sustainable. These saplings are between 5-7 years old, and have been capturing CO2, which, if they were to wither or shredded, would be released back into the atmosphere. The saplings are of, often pioneering, native species that play a vital role in our biodiversity. Non-native species may also find a safe second change in managed agroforestry systems of gardens where they can fulfil an ecological function. When one collects excess saplings there is ample chance to also remove invasive species and monitor the health and well-being of the forest. Similarly, we advise those picking up a tree with the ecological information so a sapling it matched with its correct soil type and place, always providing a mix of species to avoid creating monocultures. This way, we improve the biodiversity on both the harvest location ánd the planting location. This is, naturally, only done in collaboration and with the approval of the locations’ owner and managers.
We can achieve more with council support
We can plant more trees, cheaper and more fun. The council can play a vital role, through providing access to parks and woodlands where harvesting can take place, mobilising its network to participate (such as neighbourhood groups, foresters, community gardens, etc), by communicating about the saplings rescue events taking place, and providing funds for organising groups. We would love to get in touch to see if, together, we can make our [place] greener.
Kind regards,
xxxxxx
Place, date
Concerning: More Trees Now in our [forest name]
Dear [….]
We need your help planting more trees. We are currently approaches 3 degrees celcius of average global warming in our earth. Our natural environment and all that lives in it, is in decline. Planting trees is one of the easiest, cheapest and natural ways of combating both crises. Providing free trees for your constituents can help mitigate the climate crisis, adapt your [city/county/etc] to changing weather circumstances, and reverse the biodiversity crisis.
At the same time, many counties experience the same problem: it is difficult or expensive to plant trees. Processes may be slow, or trees evoke strong and at time contradictory opinions among the public, or there are not enough trees. The More Trees Now method provides a solution.
More Trees Now is a quick, cost-efficiënt and community-based method to plant more trees by offering the excess in young saplings to the public. A method developed in the Netherlands, there is has successfully transplanted almost 2 million free saplings to community members all over the country. It now has chapters in Germany, the UK and Ireland where pilot projects rescue and replant hundreds of thousands of trees. We want to start it in [county/place name].
Our method: circular forestry uses nature as its nursery
Our woodlands, forest and parks produce billions of descendants every year. Million of young trees, shrubs and bushes grow in places where they wither, due to lack of light or space, or they are removed in routine forest management. They grow too close to a walking path, a peat bog, or other type of landscape where saplings do not belong. We collect these saplings, cuttings an so on, by working with foresters and mobilising the community, and give these away for free. In a new, appropriate place, these saplings can grow into mature trees.
Anyone can join: the method is accessible and educational
On a ‘harvest day’ we collect the excess saplings for a second chance. It provides all participants with a new perspective on nature, it’s abundance and ecology. Subsequently, it turns climate concerns into climate action. These collected saplings are given away immediately or temporarily stored in ‘Tree Hubs’. A Tree Hub can develop into the motor of circular greenery, and a community gathering place. Farmers may choose free saplings and shrubs to create hedgerows and agroforestry systems, one can green neighbourhoods, infrastructure, schoolyards, and all in the public is free to pick up a tree for their own garden. We work based on trust, no one needs to sign difficult contracts, paperwork or other complicated measures. One simply signs up in the Tree Planner system. Due to this accessibility, all trees find a spot.
Ecologically responsible
The saplings rescued are natures’ excess. This has many ecological advantages. They are grown without extra land, effort, artificial fertilisers, herbicides or other resources, making them exceptionally sustainable. These saplings are between 5-7 years old, and have been capturing CO2, which, if they were to wither or shredded, would be released back into the atmosphere. The saplings are of, often pioneering, native species that play a vital role in our biodiversity. Non-native species may also find a safe second change in managed agroforestry systems of gardens where they can fulfil an ecological function. When one collects excess saplings there is ample chance to also remove invasive species and monitor the health and well-being of the forest. Similarly, we advise those picking up a tree with the ecological information so a sapling it matched with its correct soil type and place, always providing a mix of species to avoid creating monocultures. This way, we improve the biodiversity on both the harvest location ánd the planting location. This is, naturally, only done in collaboration and with the approval of the locations’ owner and managers.
A collaboration with [xxxx] woodland
I regularly visit [woodland/park xyz] and see thousands of saplings, of which many might not reach maturity. I would like very much to discuss with you how we could give these saplings a second chance in our community? [If relevant, you may also suggest a collaboration with an already existing maintenance volunteer group]
We always work from your vision for the [forest/park]; from removing only particular species, to removing saplings one meter from the walking path, to clearing a peat bog. We always harvest with dry roots so we do not leave holes in the landscape and we make clear agreements on which saplings are truly in excess and have no chance of survival. The species playing a vital role in your ecosystem are given more space this way.
I hope to hear from you
Kind regards,
xxxxxx
The socials
Consider creating your own social media channels and making a post about your event! You can look at our socials for some examples. You can create posts in advance, to call for help and volunteers, but also to show some nice pictures from the event itself afterwards. When people see how succesful and fun your event was, they might come to the next one!