{"id":8247,"date":"2017-03-03T10:35:20","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=8247"},"modified":"2017-03-03T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T10:35:20","slug":"forest-friends-tree-planting-bonanza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/forest-friends-tree-planting-bonanza\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Friends tree planting bonanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last weekend we welcomed more than 50 families and hundreds of people to the Future Forest to plant trees in their sponsored plots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org\/forestfriend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forest Friends<\/a> scheme has attracted support from far and wide, and it has been a privilege to meet all our new supporters and to hear their stories for why they chose to sponsor a plot in the Future Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Following the busy weekend we welcomed a team of conservation volunteers from South &amp; Vale District Councils who helped plant a large number of trees around the outside of the forest and along ride edges.<\/p>\n<p>There are just 37 plots (each holding 25 trees) left to sponsor in the dynamic new Sylva Future Forest. Final planting session for Future Forest Friends will be on <strong>Saturday 11th March<\/strong> (or we can plant your plot for you). Don&#8217;t miss your chance to be a part of this wonderful project &#8211; become a Future Forest Friend today at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org\/forestfriend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">www.sylva.org.uk\/forestfriend<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[slideshow_deploy id=&#8217;8249&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/blog\/tag\/future-forest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more new about the Future Forest <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend we welcomed more than 50 families and hundreds of people to the Future Forest to plant trees in their sponsored plots. Just 37 plots remain &#8211; please act now if you want to dedicate a plot to someone special or treat yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[196],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}