From an article about The Zephaniah Forest in Resurgence with Benjamin Zephaniah's brother, David Springer. All rights to artist.

The Zephaniah Forest 2024

Tonia Clark, Restore Nature Now, 22/06/24
Katy and Lisa hugging the tree they worked so hard for - Hodge Hill tree planting for tree week 2023, UFA
urban forest volunteers
Tree Cities of the World UK Tree Cities Forum 2024, UK Tree Cities, Birmingham, Birmingham TreePeople
Street trees Nechells
3 out of 6 pictured are Trustee L2 award winners, the first course run by Birmingham TreePeople
Dee and Mac of Birmingham TreePeople helping a volunteer group select species for plotting a tree trail.
Urban forest master plan, the front page of the document Birmingham TreePeople commissioned for the city with BCC, Treeconomics, and Forest Institute
Tree planting icon
Lots of trees for tree week 2023
Steve and Cath watching Tiffany dig a hole.
tree care with katy and nechells pod
Debt Justice Treemembrance planting
Benjamin Zephaniah
Lawrence Weston, Trustee for Orchards, helping Fruit & Nut Village with their orchard pruning. Photo credit to Fruit & Nut Village.
Tonia, Simon, & Mac at the launch for the Midlands Forest Network.
png image of the earth

Updates with Birmingham TreePeople

A family laughing beneath the canopy of a tree in Handsworth Park, taken with permission.
The whole team for the tree planting
View of Birmingham's urban forest from Park Regis, by Simon Needle of Birmingham TreePeople
Our volunteers being interviewed by Woodland Trust
  • Ebony Hikers Tree Planting
    On the weekend that Tree Week began, we started planting The Zephaniah Forest in Burbury Park, with Qian Zephaniah planting the first tree for her husband, and Ebony Hikers joined us on the second day to celebrate the life and legacy of this iconic Brummie. Despite Storm Burt being forewarned,… Read more: Ebony Hikers Tree Planting
  • The Zephaniah Forest’s First Tree for Tree Week
    THE ZEPHANIAH FOREST Qian Zephaniah, her close friends and family planted the first tree (Milky Way tree from China), and subsequent four trees, in The Zephaniah Forest – the 65 strong legacy mini-forest being planted in Burbury Park, in memory of her husband Benjamin Zephaniah, this winter. Today marks the… Read more: The Zephaniah Forest’s First Tree for Tree Week
  • Pests and Diseases Training
    Free monthly urban forest volunteer training covered pests and diseases this month, in Handsworth Park with Tonia Clark. This wonderful morning session in the park, Saturday 16th November, saw the volunteers learning the risks to trees that come with illness and creepy crawlies, just like us humans. Fungi is ever-present,… Read more: Pests and Diseases Training
Birmingham TreePeople Autumn tree banner image with transparent background

Man hugging a tree - tree hugger
A woman sitting on a bench working amongst nature.

Trees Please

Leave de trees please

Cause de trees

Work wid de breeze

To put all living tings at ease,

So leave de trees please.

Yu see

Down in Somerset, England,

I know a tree

Dat is one thousand

An five hundred years old.

Dat is a wise tree

Dat is a tree

I need

To talk to,

Dat is a tree

We animals should listen to.

For millions of animals

Trees are a home,

Trees can help shelter yu home,

So leave de trees alone.

Trees mek oxygen.

Let me say dat again:

Trees mek oxygen,

So mek a tree yu fren.

Leave de trees please

Cause de trees

Work wid de breeze

To put all living tings at ease,

An they help de birds and bees

Old an wise are all of these,

So leave de trees please

Juss

Leave de trees please.

Benjamin Zephaniah
Benjamin Zephaniah
A selection of popular ditties by Brummies.
Birmingham TreePeople logo banner: IT DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT WITHOUT GREEN.