Upps Hall Farm is a gorgeous site found near Coggeshall in Essex. Protect Earth came on board to help the landowners plant 600 trees in two separate areas on the farm. The owners themselves specifically wanted us to create a new, natural feeling woodland, with a nice wide canopy and understory. To this effect, we chose to randomly plant the trees in a rough ratio of 85:15, trees to shrubs respectively. This will mean that as they grow, each tree will have plenty of room to stretch their branches as wide as they care to.
On our second visit back to the farm we were fortunate enough to have wrangled a small army of volunteers in order to help us pop some mulch mats around the saplings. We do this occasionally because sometimes the grass will have gotten super long and will actually be competing with the tree for the nutrients in the soil. The mulch mats smother the grass and weeds and actually keep in the moisture too, greatly increasing the tree’s survival chances during the hot, dry summers we seem to be getting more and more frequently.
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