To celebrate the start of the planting season, we’ve been out planting trees and supporting others to do the same.
At two events in Market Rasen and Boothby Pagnell, we’ve given away free tree and hedgerow packs to farmers, landowners and community groups, as part of our LincWoods partnership with the Woodland Trust.
Across these two events more than 5,000 trees and 25,000 hedging plants.
As well as supporting community planting initiatives, the county council is responsible for many of the thousands of trees that line the county’s roads.
On the Lincoln Eastern Bypass, just outside Bracebridge Heath, we’ve continued planting alongside the cycling and walking path that runs between the A15 and Lincoln Road roundabouts. This long line of trees was started last November during National Tree Week and now extends to over 100 saplings.
National Tree Week marks the start of the tree planting season each year, which runs from November until the end of March.
Despite its reputation for being a green and rural county, Lincolnshire actually has one of the lowest tree coverage rates in the country at just four per cent, compared to an England average of 10 per cent.
To respond to this, we’re supporting more tree planting projects around the county, with a long-term ambition to see one new tree planted for every resident – that’s 750,000 trees.
To help us achieve this, earlier this year we launched our LincWoods partnership with the Woodland Trust. This ambitious initiative aims to plant 200,000 trees across Lincolnshire by 2026, significantly enhancing the region’s green spaces and biodiversity.
It will mean over 130 football fields’ worth of new woodland and 20,000 metres of new hedgerow.
Find out more about tree planting in Lincolnshire at www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/trees.