Hayhills Farm is becoming a haven for wildlife and carbon storage with a new woodland creation project.
Over 30,000 native trees get planted there, including oak and cherry trees, as well as birch and rowan trees. The new woodland covers twenty-one hectares, about ten football fields in size. They will also restore five hectares of old woodland. This woodland is special and rare.
The plan stretches fifty years into the future. The farm will become a wildlife habitat. It will also store carbon for a long time. The farm is part of a bigger project called the ‘Northern Forest.’
They plan to plant fifty million trees. This spans from Liverpool to Hull. The M62 corridor sits right there. Funding comes from the Grow Back Greener program. The Woodland Trust leads this, working with White Rose Forest, assisted by Government funds from the Nature for Climate Fund.
Lloyds committed to planting ten million trees by 2030 nationwide. They partnered with the Woodland Trust back in 2020. Hayhills Farm work is part of this commitment.
Local MP Robbie Moore visited the farm, joined by Mark Burton from Lloyds. They checked the project progress and wanted to see things firsthand.