STUMP UP for TREES - To plant a million trees in the Brecon Beacons

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A community driven initiative to plant a million trees to deliver ecological restoration in the Bannau Brycheiniog area of South Wales.

06/11/2026

14/10/2026

Fantastic event at the Borough Theatre, Abergavenny to celebrate the launch of the Sugar Loaf Regeneration Farm Partnership, a collaborative initiative between local farmers, the National Trust and Stump Up For Trees to deliver landscape-scale restoration on Sugar Loaf mountain and adjoining farms, supported by a £900k grant from Welsh Gov under the Integrated Natural Resources Scheme, part of the SFS.

The event was hosted by Kate Humble with a great line up of speakers including the inestimable Craig Hope and Simon Evans, talking about wildfire prevention and flood mitigation, along with our own Jenny Knight, Rob Penn and Mark Morgan, talking trees, future funding and the economics of farm resilience.

Packed house of enthusiastic citizens ready to engage and take agency around building resilient landscapes with the farming community. Therein lies hope.

If you came, thank you for your support. If you didn’t come but would like to know more about the long list of ecological surveys taking place, the nature-based solutions farmers are delivering, and ways you can actually get stuck in:
Sugarloaf-CIC.org

The time is now.

Thanks to various for photos including robyorke and Gareth Banks. 🙏

Mud and Thunder
Kate Humble

09/10/2026

Huge thanks to our volunteers who came seed collecting by the Punchbowl this Thursday.

A beautiful autumnal morning and perfectly ripe beech seeds ready for harvesting.

These will be sown at the Stump Community Tree Nursery in the next few weeks and will help us to grow the hedgerows and forests of the future. 💚 🌳 🌳 🌳

01/10/2026

Well, I never thought I’d be typing this… but we had the Prince of Wales visit us today, at a farm in the beautiful rolling Monmouthshire hills, a farm owned Jim and Kate Bevan (Kate is our Woodland Creation Officer, amongst her many roles in the community). The farm is a case study for us: we have planted hedgerows and shelterbelts here, to deliver, inter alia, natural flood management, carbon sequestration, shelter and shade for stock (when the trees are up, leaning into the sky) along with air, soil and water quality, all without any significant impact on the economics of the farm business. Boom. More resilient landscapes, still producing food. Tell us something you don’t like.

Prince charming. He was also, more pertinently, genuinely well informed about land management issues ranging from the best species mix for a broadleaf shelterbelt through targeted tree planting for water management, to using trees to create fire breaks on common land. His father’s son.

A red letter day for the SUFT team. The Prince even planted a tree. Oak in the deck. Tick. Joy.

28/09/2026

Seed Festival at our Community Tree Nursery on Saturday. Loads going on. Be wonderful to see you! 🌳💚🙏

27/09/2026

That’s it - bracken bashing and tree maintenance on Bryn Arw finished for 2026. Fab team of volunteers on the hill on a beautiful autumn day. If you have lifted a sickle with us this year, thank you mightily. Trees looking good and enjoying a drink today. 💚🌳🙏

24/09/2026

Magical morning seed collecting at Cefn Ila. Thank you to a wonderful team of volunteers. We gathered blackthorn, hawthorn, hornbeam, wild service, spindle, field maple plus some apples and pears from the old orchard. A fab way to see in the autumnal equinox. We now have lots of processing and seed sowing to do at the nursery on Tuesday and at the Seed Festival at our Community Tree Nursery next Saturday, 3 October . Join us if you can 🌳

23/09/2026

Tree maintenance on Bryn Arw. Seems like a good way to celebrate the autumn equinox.

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