Last weekend myself and two other members of the community went and put some trees in the ground (hooray)

We planted 80 in a day and learnt a huge amount in the process a great deal of which we can pass on to you here.

First of all planting trees does not need to be nearly as expensive as we had been led to believe. Back at the beginning of the project we were informed that to put a tree in the ground cost between 4 and 5 pounds sterling.

This price broke down approximately as follows (it was 2.5 years ago so it's pretty rough)

Sapling just over ~£1
Tree guard to prevent them being eaten by rabbits/deer ~£1
Stake to keep them standing up ~£1
Labour to put them in the ground ~£1

The price quoted for us planting a tree was around £5 equivalent in BTC, LTC and Carboncoin

Trees are available in a variety of different stages of growth but the youngest form (and most vulnerable to being eaten) is called a whip. Provided it is planted in the ground correctly (at the right time of year (!) ) and not eaten by anything naughty this will grow into a fully grown tree so I'm happy to announce that it's MUCH cheaper than I thought to plant trees!

I think we can do it for about £2 per tree and there are ways to make this even cheaper!

On the current site we have room to plant another 200 and we have several other sites. Our first site is still there but because they maintain forests professionally they are only interested in planting higher quality later stage whips and using high quality stakes and guards. Our objective is biodiverse natural habitats on land that's not being used for anything else - and community participation is a thing we absolutely want to encourage - which the original site did not want to.

We're doing it ourselves and we've got canes and basic tree guards already so it's 60p each (because we're doing it for free) - so 200 is about £120 if anyone fancies a bit of that action here's a bitcoin address 19MzcxbwSKGw9HK9YWNCZPnuDM3DzWrgax

Carboncoin is set up to provide a constant source of funding for biodiverse forestry but only once we've had it adopted (because the donated coins in the largest wallet aren't worth very much til that happens)

We're getting some trees in the ground while we make that happen.

The Carboncoin blockchain is 3 years old in less than 2 weeks!

Do you know where your local tree nursery is?

Get the trees in the ground!

AM