Pocket Forests
Catherine Cleary
Pocket Forests are a Dublin-based social enterprise that reconnect people with nature and help to tackle the biodiversity crisis by bringing the environmental and mental health benefits of tree planting to nature-deprived communities. They work with communities, using food waste to regenerate soil and plant trees and shrubs, and helping them create and care for the green spaces in their schools, neighbourhoods, or workplaces. They do this by:
- Helping organisations build pocket forests on their land
- Preparing pocket forests in the community and involving local residents
- Providing free community and workplace workshops
- Working with local authorities to provide community greening programmes.
Access to green spaces isn’t equal. But bringing the benefits of tree planting, for the environment and mental health, to nature-deprived communities makes for a greener, more equal future.
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By planting trees in communities, creating ecosystems rather than lone trees in urban areas, we create pockets of natural resilience. By involving local communities in creating their own green spaces, people get a real connection to the natural world on their doorstep.
Catherine Cleary, Founder of Pocket Forests