‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London

London Tree Ring project aims to create corridors of plant and animal life around the city to strengthen its biodiversityHarry Ewing is heaping branches and foliage from the forest floor on to a dead hedge, reinforcing the protective circle around his newly planted trees in Hadley Wood, north London. He is in a glade created by a fallen oak that was previously overrun with thick bramble.“I feel very happy – the trees are growing already. It’s really nice seeing it when it starts,” says Ewing. Continue reading…