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Case Study: Empowering others
Working side by side with wildlife
Wild Wisdom Community Farm is a small community collective based in
Stourbridge. By working in harmony with local nature, they grow healthy food
while creating and supporting habitats that enable wildlife to flourish.
To help enable them to do this, they needed to plant a brand-new hedgerow that
ran along the length of their field, also creating a woodland belt area to provide
spaces for picnics and social gatherings. By empowering community-based
volunteers through our ‘I Dig Trees’ and community network programme,
WWCF were able to plant an incredible 950 native British trees in just one
wonderful weekend, totally transforming their space and bringing new
nature to the local environment.
TCV’s ‘I Dig Trees’ community network programme enables groups like
WWCF to secure free trees, transforming local communities. Over
the course of the weekend, 60 local volunteers turned up to help,
picking up shovels, digging holes and providing new homes for the
trees TCV provided. It was a fantastic example of a community
joining forces to give nature a helping hand, and together they
created a vibrant, nature-rich green space that will aid the local
environment and people for decades to come. Not only this,
but they also created a new space for people to come and
learn all about WWCF’s regenerative agricultural methods,
ensuring native species and curious minds can continue to
thrive in this corner of Stourbridge.
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