Urban trees: 🌳Reduce energy use 🏙Improve water quality 🌴Increase property values They are #biodiversity heroes in concrete jungles. Via @FAO

Benches made for the willow dome #seacroft #communitygarden #permaculture

A glorious day in the garden weeding and clearing the paths #forestgarden #community #seacroft

We were joined by Karen & Kirsty today. We are very grateful for their hard work and to @Watesgroup for allowing staff to help out on Wednesdays during the next few months 😀

During Volunteers Week, we had not one but two days, with wonderful volunteers from #VirginMoney and Wates Group Thank you for all your hard work🙂 The garden was also enjoyed by a group attending a course run by Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative and a local poetry group #seacroft

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳

Fantastic to see 100+ young people from Leeds schools learning and sharing their ideas about the #climate and #sustainability Great work from the schools, staff, and speakers involved @DECLeeds @PaulChatterton9 @tomriordan @cardinalheenan @katiejanedye https://t.co/vWzA0lyVjC

Which conversations do you want to have that will help to progress your community climate activities? Come along to our networking event on Tuesday 21st May 6-9pm to have those conversations. For more info and to book: https://t.co/MId3ltmqRR

Happy Earth Day 2024! 💚🌍 Check out all the things you can do - whether big or small - to help our planet! 💪 And consider volunteering with the organisations below! @CanalRiverTrust @ClimateActLeeds @SkeltonGrange @leedstidal #EarthDay2024 #SustainableLiving #SaveOurPlanet

Soon enough, every bush and tree at Seacroft Forest Garden will bear fruit for the community to pick freely! Come on down Sundays 10am-12pm if you want to help care for these plants and grow food for you and your local area!

Everything is growing on the Garden today! The beans are coming out, first round of potatoes planted and the herbs have recovered from winter. Our willow entrance to the upcoming moon garden is almost fully woven too! Come down Sundays 10-12 if you want to get involved!

We've started planting up our annual veg beds . So far we have cabbage, peas, runner beans, swede and cauliflower

We are pleased to be hosting this superb course delivered by Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative https://t.co/bbSgXAtLv8 @ClimateActLeeds #Seacroft #permaculture

The Easter egg hunt was eggcellent fun #seacroft #eastereggs #community

We are very grateful for their hard work today

Spring is bursting out in the garden

We are so excited to be shortlisted

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The value of an (existing) tree🌳 We love planting new trees, but there's NOTHING as precious as an old tree. The word graphic says it all.. Visualise a 100 year old beech, almost 20 metres high and with a treetop diameter of 12 metres. It’s got 600,000 leaves which convert its