Thousands of trees are being planted across Derbyshire now the second planting season of the county’s ambitious Derbyshire’s Heartwood Community Forest is well under way.
Derbyshire’s Heartwood Community Forest is a long‑term programme we lead to increase tree cover across eastern and southern Derbyshire and Derby.
Tree planting helps to improve biodiversity, prevent flooding, provide soil stability and shelter for livestock, and create healthier, greener places for people to live, work and visit.
Through a government-funded grants scheme, landowners, farmers, schools and community groups can apply for 100% funding toward woodland creation, hedgerow planting and ongoing maintenance for up to 15 years.
We’re already lining up sites for our next planting season from October with free Government grants to cover costs of tree-planting and more in our hassle-free scheme. So if you have land available in the east, north east or south of the county, we want to hear from you.
📸Councillor Carol Wood, pictured centre, surrounded by newly planted trees at Silverhill Farm in Tibshelf with landowner Cat Howourth, right, and woodland creation officer Iaian Stafford.
