The Journey

The Tree Salutation is a project looking at human healing whilst honouring trees through a series of simple movements and breathwork.  It was co-created by Estrella Luna Diez (Principle Investigator of MEMBRA and Plant Pathologist), Honor Wolf Moon (Yoga Teacher and...

Read about the first part of the Tree Nursery project here Days before the summer solstice, 2024 our second Walking Forest Tree Nursery Workshop was held in Birmingham with community participants.  Ruth, Anne and I travelled to the Dolphin Women’s Centre in Ward End...

Our recent collaboration with Salt Road and communities from Birmingham, exploring memory, ancestry and tree seed nuturing within the context of wider research from MEMBRA.

'Meaningful, touching, enraging, inspiring stops and talks. Besides, cycling and gaining the skills and courage is such a joy!' — Berna Vardar Radical Rose: a cycle ride around central London running in parallel to Extinction Rebellion's The Big One - took place on...

MEMBRA asks the question: do trees have memory, and if they do how would that change our perception of them and their standing in our world?

The travel conditions were hardly favourable and for many of us just the idea of being outside in the sub-zero temperatures forecast wasn’t exactly enticing, but such is the pull of the Last Suffragette Tree.

Charlotte Du Cann & the Coventry Walking Forest Anchor Women share thoughts and feelings about Walking Forest Projects in 2021.

On a sunny cold day in October 2021, we were joined by about 20 women, many of whom had taken part in a performative action during which we had collectively carried a silver birch felled by HS2 through the streets of the Coventry.

On 15 and 16 October 2021 from dawn until dusk a felled tree moved through the streets of Coventry, carried by a group of women in an act of endurance and love for the planet and future generations, mourning the loss of forests and ecosystems around the world and...

A felled tree moves through Glasgow carried by a group of women. An act of endurance and love for the planet.

The Walking Forest Coventry camp held from 27th to 30th May was a 4-day camp held at Rough Close woodland on the outskirts of  Coventry. An open invitation was sent out & 30 women joined together to explore the link between women, trees, and activism as part of...

From 19-21 March 2021 a group of 15 women gathered to join us and take part in Walking Forest’s first camp online for South Devon. Here three participants, Rosa, Annie and Judy share their experience of the camp. The Camp forms part of Walking Forest’s Season For...

An invitation to join the Walking Forest Online Camp on 19th-21st March. If you would to find out more about the camp please come to our Q & A session on Thursdays 4th, 11th and 18th March at 10.30am.

An invitation to join the Walking Forest Online Glasgow Camp – Tues 21st, Thu 23rd and Tues 28th September.

There are four strands to the work for this year and going into 2021 – Trees, Mycelium, Gifting & Propagation Camps.

In 2020 we began our community research, first in Coventry, to see who might be interested in Walking Forest. Follow Lucy Neal’s mapping of the city, its people and places, as she makes connections through time and place like the mycelial web. Read more below.My...

The invitation: Join an international online gathering for Women Earth defenders and activists to share personal accounts, make connections and inspire courage in us all.  This online gathering will be participatory and nourishing inviting participants to share and...

Throughout our travels to Glasgow and beyond, Lucy Neal, myself and Anne-Marie Culhane witnessed rivers bursting their seams and reclaiming land, causing heartache for communities and farmers, expanding territory for beavers, and washing away crops. 

We started the first annual WF vigil in December 2018 inviting each year a small group of predominantly women to gather with us in the company of the last standing Suffragette Tree in Batheaston.

There are four strands to the work for this year and going into 2021 – Trees, Mycelium, Gifting & Propagation Camps.

On October 14th 2019 we invited people to join us on a performative mile-long walk in London timed to coincide with the October International Extinction Rebellion. Invitations went out through Walking Forest networks as well as directly through Extinction Rebellion circles.

Theatre maker, writer and community activist Lucy Neal describes her trip to the COP24 negotiations in Poland in December 2018.

Partnering with Moor Trees we spent a day under the canopy of ancient Dartmoor oak, gathering acorns to plant for future forests.