On December 3rd 2024, Kinda Wednesday tribe and facilitators helped to plant 4 Native Black Poplar on the land. As they enjoy their feet close to water (kids and plants), we planted on clay land in an area known to hold water, near the newly dug pond. At 10 meters part, mature trees grow to 30m and can live for 200 years. Today they are less than a foot in height.
Why plant Native Black Poplar?
Native Black Poplar (NBP), once common throughout the land, is a declining species in the UK. It almost never reproduces either from seed or from wind-blown branches self-rooting in wetland sites, mainly due to today’s intensively farmed landscape. This means that the survival of the species is heavily dependent on human intervention. In our case this is Suffolk Tree Warden Network (STWN) who launched the NBP project three years ago. Many thanks to David Appleton, who leads this project. All of the ones planted we have to map and register in the Suffolk NBP database. Hence the holding up of the number by the young planters.
Kinda Elders in the woods 
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