‘I don’t like being stuck in an office’: the young people helping plant a ring of trees around London (www.theguardian.com)

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Harry 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.

The 20-year-old is part of a group of young adults with learning disabilities who are transforming their environment and breaking into green sector jobs. They are working on a section of the London Tree Ring, an ambitious project to create corridors of plant and animal life around the capital.

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[-] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

I don't like the office either, but unless someone is going to pay me a living wage to touch grass I am kinda stuck here.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 0 points 1 month ago

she think we're doing this for FUN?

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