WI plant hazel trees near Pateley Bridge to celebrate 110 Years
WI members from Kirby Overblow KO Girls suggested that WI's in North Yorkshire should plant trees to commemorate 110 years of the Women's Institute England.
Planting trees supports the WI Climate Action Campaign in the fight against climate change being one of the things we can all do to help.
100 Hazel Trees were planted in a coppice at "Make it Wild" site at Bank Wood near Pateley Bridge, appropriately nearly central to the area covered by North Yorkshire Federation of WI.
The 76 WI groups were invited to sponsor a tree and a volunteer group of members from KO Girls, Bainbridge, Coverdale and Marton Cum Grafton WI's spent a day learning the correct way to plant trees and guarding them against the weather, deer and voles. Sponsored trees had a WI Name label attached.
The coppice planted by the WI is one area of seven to provide a cycle of trees to be cut down one area every seven years by "Make it Wild". This will provide a variety of habitats and wood when coppiced in turn will provide wood for hurdles, bean sticks, binders, charcoal and wood for activities at the site.
Anyone wishing to join a WI please contact the Federation Office in Ripon on 01765 606339. "Make it Wild" events see website www.makeitwild.co.uk