On Friday the 26th and Saturday the 27th March the Native Woodland Trust held a tree planting event in The Kildare Steiner School, County Kildare, sponsored by AIB. “Our aim was to plant 1,500 new native trees as well as put down a woodland forest path” said a spokesperson for the group. “Since announcing this event in the school it has created a great buzz and has pulled all the parents of the school together. We turned up at the school on Friday to be met by very excited children, teachers and Native Woodland Trust volunteers.”
Over the course of Friday volunteers managed to put down most of the woodland path which is rather large and plant about 200 native trees. On Saturday word had spread and twice the amount of volunteers turned up to help. Over the course of Saturday Native Woodland Trust volunteers planted the remaining 1,300 native trees and finished the woodland forest path.
Species planted were Oak, Ash, Alder, Birch, Blackthorn, Guelder Rose, Hawthorn, Hazel, Holly, Rowan, Spindle, Willow as well as a few Strawberry trees. This is now a very valuable asset to the school and will be used by the school as an outdoor classroom to teach the children the importance of woodlands.