FRANCESCA CERRI  ·  VISUAL STORYTELLING

Community planting

 

An acorn story

part 1: collecting acorns

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Queen's University Belfast 

The Conservation Volunteers

 Lennoxvale Tree Nursery

Belfast, UK

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Queen’s community in partnership with SU Volunteer,

Public Engagement,

The Conservation Volunteers

and Sans Souci Residents Association

 have worked together since 2019

to plant native trees across campus for the

One Million Trees for Belfast Initiative

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The majority of saplings started life as acorns collected from Belvoir Forest's historical oak trees, and carefully planted at the Lennoxvale Tree Nursery.

LTN was imagined on a vacant brown field site owned by Queen’s University by Sans Souci Residents and Queen’s students.

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To date, over 2,000 oak saplings have been grown in the tree nursery for the One Million Trees for Belfast initiative, enhancing the environment and climate of Belfast, with over 150 individuals involved in the project.