Southmere Park Tiny Forest (London), credit Richard Held
Events
Join our lineup of FREE events! From hands-on planting days to engaging online webinars and skill-enhancing training sessions, there's a splash of fun waiting for every nature enthusiast!
Become a Tree Keeper
Become a Tree Keeper with us! Embrace the heartwarming role of nurturing your Tiny Forests, from weeding to ensuring they flourish. It's community engagement at its greenest and finest!
Become a Citizen Scientist
Step up as a Citizen Scientist! Unveil the mysteries of our Tiny Forests, gather insights, and contribute to groundbreaking ecological knowledge. It's where curiosity meets conservation!
Tiny Forest for Schools
Engage your students in Tiny Forest as a living science lab, enabling hands-on outdoor learning and a bond with nature. Let's plant seeds of knowledge and grow together!
Support the Movement
Support the Movement! Dream of a Tiny Forest in your community? Reach out to us and see that vision come to life. Your donations also help spread the green magic far and wide. Let's create leafy legacies!
Meet our Amazing Tree Keepers
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our Tree Keepers for the Mutton brook Tiny Forest in Barnet lobbied with their local council to have a Tiny Forest in their borough for over one and a half years. They finally had their dream realised and now regularly organise events at their forest with local families – including a party for the forest’s first birthday! -
Virginia, Peter, Alba, Chez, Paul, Ozlem and Mike from Normand Park Tiny Forest are very passionate, engaged and carry out regular citizen science events for their local community. -
Stephanie is from Perry Common Tiny Forest and always hangs colourful ribbons on the Tiny Forest sign whenever she visits as an invitation for people to come have a chat with her. -
Halinka regularly weeds her Tiny Forest, like clockwork in East Lancing. Her suggestion: ‘Don’t make a lot of work for yourselves. Pull your weeds out and pack them round the trunks of your trees. Huge nitrogen (boost) and keeps the ground clear and humid.’ -
Sarah and her family celebrated their Tiny Forest’s first birthday with a home-baked cake! They also regularly weed and monitor their forest. -
Ric, Phil, Jane, Asha and Parveen meet regularly at their Tiny Forest in Wolverhampton and carry out citizen science surveys, weeding and have a good chat. -
Ian in Crewe helped repair the broken fence while Sarah and her little daughter helped water their Tiny Forest by borrowing her neighbour’s bowser! -
Harry and his brother Thomas who are growing alongside their Tiny Forest in Witney, getting involved in all aspect of planting, monitoring and caring for their forest. Plus finding time to enjoy a nice picnic with their mum Rachael after carrying out a biodiversity survey. -
Lucyna and her partner are always on top of maintaining their Tiny Forest. They regularly weed and water their forest and take breathtaking photographs of the amazing wildlife they find – including a little toad that climbed onto Lucyna’s shoe during a weeding session! -
Andy is very passionate about his Tiny Forest and carries out regular weeding and biodiversity surveys. Here he has found baby newts under a biodiversity tile! -
Neve lives very close to the Tiny Forest and keeps a close eye on his forest, sharing some of the amazing biodiversity he spots. -
Helen is keen to give the plants and trees in her forest a better chance to grow and flourish with regular weeding. -
Dean has championed tackling very weedy forests and giving the saplings the best chance to thrive. -
Melanie visits her Tiny Forest along with her fellow Tree Keepers to carry out regular maintenance. She has also gotten her local school involved in the monitoring of the forest and even collected the Chippenham Civic Society Conservation and Environment Award for the Tiny Forest. -
Helen regularly gets her local school involved to monitor and nurture her Tiny Forest. Here Helen shares a photo of her lush forest after a good round of watering from the bowser during a recent heat spell. -
Jenni is one of the teachers at a school that have their very own Tiny Forest in their school grounds. These living science laboratories are amazing places to engage young minds. This forest even has its very own pond attracting lots of local wildlife. -
Karen loves taking her pupils to their Tiny Forest, where the students find trees that are the same height as them to ‘twin’ with, play musical instrument to their trees, and many more fun activities. -
Penelope diligently made notes during the Tree Keeper induction webinar. She has plans to talk to her Eco Club at school about her Tiny Forest. Penelope and her sister recently visited their forest for a weeding session with her mother Gabby and granny - the beginning of an intergenerational Tiny Forest story! -
Paul and his fellow Tree Keepers are always keen to stop by their forest and check for vandalism, do a bit of weeding and monitoring. Here they have kindly fixed the signage of their forest after an incident of vandalism.
TINY FOREST FOR SCHOOLS
Your local Tiny Forest offers great outdoor education opportunities. It offers rich connections to science, opportunities for meaningful connection to nature and cross-curricular links for creatively learning about environmental challenges and solutions in an inspiring green space.
The ‘living science lab’ provides hands-on learning about flooding, soils, plant growth and biodiversity, all while using skills such as measurement, observation, data collection and comparison. It can also offer a safe space to step outside the comfort zone and gain exposure to different nature textures, colours and sounds. Learn more about using Tiny Forest in schools and the educational resources for your teaching and learning here.
HELP EXPAND THE TINY FOREST MOVEMENT
If you are interested in sponsoring a Tiny Forest or would like to see a Tiny Forest planted in your local area, then we’d love to hear from you! Get in touch with us.
You can also help us nurture and grow the Tiny Forest movement through a direct donation.