Tree Musketeers
@tmhackney.bsky.social
We're volunteers who grow trees at the Hackney Community Tree Nursery and plant them out in Hackney’s parks and green spaces.
Email: hello@treemusketeers.org.uk
Email: hello@treemusketeers.org.uk
At the Nursery we have been doing seed identification, separation & sorting.
Including the Pride of India - Koelreuteria paniculata, Liquidambar - styraciflua & the Common Alder - Alnus glutinosa.
Soaking in the bowl are Algerian oak - Quercus canariensis
Photos by Pete Burke
#nationaltreeweek
Including the Pride of India - Koelreuteria paniculata, Liquidambar - styraciflua & the Common Alder - Alnus glutinosa.
Soaking in the bowl are Algerian oak - Quercus canariensis
Photos by Pete Burke
#nationaltreeweek
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
At the Nursery we have been doing seed identification, separation & sorting.
Including the Pride of India - Koelreuteria paniculata, Liquidambar - styraciflua & the Common Alder - Alnus glutinosa.
Soaking in the bowl are Algerian oak - Quercus canariensis
Photos by Pete Burke
#nationaltreeweek
Including the Pride of India - Koelreuteria paniculata, Liquidambar - styraciflua & the Common Alder - Alnus glutinosa.
Soaking in the bowl are Algerian oak - Quercus canariensis
Photos by Pete Burke
#nationaltreeweek
We're open next Saturday 10am-3pm, come down and volunteer, you can find us next to the Hackney Marshes Centre on Homerton Road, E9 5PF.
Credit to Stezzo films for making this awesome video showing what it's like to volunteer at the nursery
www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVIf...
#volunteer #community
Credit to Stezzo films for making this awesome video showing what it's like to volunteer at the nursery
www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVIf...
#volunteer #community
🌱The best volunteering I've done in London 🌳This is real community action!#UrbanForests
YouTube video by Stezzo Films
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November 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We're open next Saturday 10am-3pm, come down and volunteer, you can find us next to the Hackney Marshes Centre on Homerton Road, E9 5PF.
Credit to Stezzo films for making this awesome video showing what it's like to volunteer at the nursery
www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVIf...
#volunteer #community
Credit to Stezzo films for making this awesome video showing what it's like to volunteer at the nursery
www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVIf...
#volunteer #community
Join the Tree Musketeers for our Tree Planting in December!
We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th.
Sign up on our Eventbrite page:
www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers
@loveourpark.bsky.social
@sustainhackney.bsky.social
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social
We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th.
Sign up on our Eventbrite page:
www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers
@loveourpark.bsky.social
@sustainhackney.bsky.social
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Join the Tree Musketeers for our Tree Planting in December!
We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th.
Sign up on our Eventbrite page:
www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers
@loveourpark.bsky.social
@sustainhackney.bsky.social
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social
We'll be planting in Hackney Downs park on the 6th & 7th and in Millfields on the 13th.
Sign up on our Eventbrite page:
www.bit.ly/hackneytreemusketeers
@loveourpark.bsky.social
@sustainhackney.bsky.social
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social
Holy shrub! Tree Musketeers are blessed to have just won the National Lottery Community Fund! What a magical start to the season! All going towards our Growing Hackney project which will be running throughout the next 2 planting seasons, winter 2025-26 & 2026-27. #nationallottery
October 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Holy shrub! Tree Musketeers are blessed to have just won the National Lottery Community Fund! What a magical start to the season! All going towards our Growing Hackney project which will be running throughout the next 2 planting seasons, winter 2025-26 & 2026-27. #nationallottery
We're looking at pollinators in the Nursery - This is a male Common Blue butterfly - polyomatus Icarus. The hindwing of both sexes have a row of reddish/orange spots.
📷 photo credit: Pete Burke
#hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators
📷 photo credit: Pete Burke
#hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators
September 16, 2025 at 3:02 PM
We're looking at pollinators in the Nursery - This is a male Common Blue butterfly - polyomatus Icarus. The hindwing of both sexes have a row of reddish/orange spots.
📷 photo credit: Pete Burke
#hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators
📷 photo credit: Pete Burke
#hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators
We are recruiting!
Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community.
Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025
www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs
#Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney
Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community.
Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025
www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs
#Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney
September 8, 2025 at 11:27 AM
We are recruiting!
Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community.
Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025
www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs
#Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney
Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community.
Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025
www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs
#Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney
Our AGM is on Saturday 27 September. Come along to the Tree Nursery 13.30 for a 14.00 start. Hear about what we’ve achieved in the last 12 months and our future plans. Followed by afternoon tea.
August 29, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Our AGM is on Saturday 27 September. Come along to the Tree Nursery 13.30 for a 14.00 start. Hear about what we’ve achieved in the last 12 months and our future plans. Followed by afternoon tea.
Our Apple Day was in October but the apples are falling now… so we’ve moved it forward three weeks
August 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our Apple Day was in October but the apples are falling now… so we’ve moved it forward three weeks
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Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
July 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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We’re organising the Tree Circle Cinema, the free community film showings in South Millfields Park, on 6 Sept. We hope you’ll join us. We need to raise enough to cover the cost of putting on the event… please support us if you can:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Help raise £750 to put on the Tree Circle Cinema 2025 - a free, annual, community event in Clapton, Hackney – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to put on the Tree Circle Cinema 2025 - a free, annual, community event in Clapton, Hackney. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
www.justgiving.com
June 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
We’re organising the Tree Circle Cinema, the free community film showings in South Millfields Park, on 6 Sept. We hope you’ll join us. We need to raise enough to cover the cost of putting on the event… please support us if you can:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...
Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to christine@treemusketeers.org.uk by 27 June. There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.
June 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to christine@treemusketeers.org.uk by 27 June. There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.
Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to christine@treemusketeers.org.uk There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.
June 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to christine@treemusketeers.org.uk There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.
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Come along to our plant sale on Sunday next week (1 June) from 11.00. We’re raising money to fund the Tree Circle Cinema… the annual free community film screening held in the circle of trees in South Millfields.
@tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
@tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
May 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Come along to our plant sale on Sunday next week (1 June) from 11.00. We’re raising money to fund the Tree Circle Cinema… the annual free community film screening held in the circle of trees in South Millfields.
@tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
@tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social
Ecological music artist, Phoebe Coco, singing at the tree nursery Open Day yesterday. Absolutely beautiful.
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Ecological music artist, Phoebe Coco, singing at the tree nursery Open Day yesterday. Absolutely beautiful.
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
Amazing artwork on our lockup by landscape-graffiti painter Joe Webster at our Open Day yesterday
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Amazing artwork on our lockup by landscape-graffiti painter Joe Webster at our Open Day yesterday
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social
Going to the #HackneyMoves festival this Saturday? Pop in to the Tree Nursery Open Day on the other side of the Hackney Marshes Centre. It’s a very special place. And a very short walk. And part of the @urbantreefest.bsky.social.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social
@greenerhackney.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Going to the #HackneyMoves festival this Saturday? Pop in to the Tree Nursery Open Day on the other side of the Hackney Marshes Centre. It’s a very special place. And a very short walk. And part of the @urbantreefest.bsky.social.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social
@greenerhackney.bsky.social
We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
May 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
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Job Alert! 🌿🐛🦋📢 Could you be @savebutterflies.bsky.social new Head of Ecology Services? Leading and building our role providing advice and technical services, this role puts you at the heart of our nature recovery work! Please apply or DM for a chat about it. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
May 9, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Job Alert! 🌿🐛🦋📢 Could you be @savebutterflies.bsky.social new Head of Ecology Services? Leading and building our role providing advice and technical services, this role puts you at the heart of our nature recovery work! Please apply or DM for a chat about it. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...
Come and celebrate Urban Tree Week at the tree nursery Open Day on Sat 17 May 11-16.00… or join us on Wednesday or Friday for tree tours of the nursery. @urbantreefest.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Come and celebrate Urban Tree Week at the tree nursery Open Day on Sat 17 May 11-16.00… or join us on Wednesday or Friday for tree tours of the nursery. @urbantreefest.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social
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The elephant in the climate space is the cow - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact.
But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act.
shorturl.at/JMy71
Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact.
But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act.
shorturl.at/JMy71
The climate solution that is being ignored // ft. George Monbiot.
YouTube video by WePlanet Australia
www.youtube.com
May 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The elephant in the climate space is the cow - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact.
But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act.
shorturl.at/JMy71
Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact.
But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act.
shorturl.at/JMy71
Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni) overwinter 7 months then feed up on spring flowers. The female leads males an upward dance before tumbling down to mate. She usually lays on the 2 buckthorn (rhamnus) species, purging & alder, the caterpillars' food
#insectThursday
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social
#insectThursday
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social
April 17, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni) overwinter 7 months then feed up on spring flowers. The female leads males an upward dance before tumbling down to mate. She usually lays on the 2 buckthorn (rhamnus) species, purging & alder, the caterpillars' food
#insectThursday
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social
#insectThursday
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). Females coat their eggs in dust & sand before flinging them at solitary bee & wasp nests with rapid twists of her body. The larvae feed parasitically on the grubs. They are around March-June…learn more about trees & bees at the Tree Nursery treemusketeers.org.uk
April 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). Females coat their eggs in dust & sand before flinging them at solitary bee & wasp nests with rapid twists of her body. The larvae feed parasitically on the grubs. They are around March-June…learn more about trees & bees at the Tree Nursery treemusketeers.org.uk
Out in Millfields Park with tree volunteers watering and mulching the newly planted woodland. The ground is very dry. Still, the whips are growing very well.
April 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Out in Millfields Park with tree volunteers watering and mulching the newly planted woodland. The ground is very dry. Still, the whips are growing very well.
Slo-Mo video of honey bees leaving and returning to a hive at our community tree nursery.
It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk
It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk
April 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Slo-Mo video of honey bees leaving and returning to a hive at our community tree nursery.
It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk
It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk