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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · 22d

We're looking at pollinators in the Nursery - This is a male Common Blue butterfly - polyomatus Icarus. The hindwing of both sexes have a row of reddish/orange spots.
📷 photo credit: Pete Burke
#hackneybiodiversity #butterfliesandmoths #communitygardens #pollinators

Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are recruiting!
Join us as a part-time engagement arboriculturalist. Manage our tree stock, agree on our planting plans, engage volunteers & the wider community.
Deadline: Friday 26 September 2025
www.treemusketeers.org.uk/jobs
#Greenjobs #arbjobs #arboriculturist #communityengagement #Hackney

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Aug 29

Our AGM is on Saturday 27 September. Come along to the Tree Nursery 13.30 for a 14.00 start. Hear about what we’ve achieved in the last 12 months and our future plans. Followed by afternoon tea.

Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Aug 22

Our Apple Day was in October but the apples are falling now… so we’ve moved it forward three weeks

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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · Aug 2

Save the Date! The Tree Circle Cinema is back in September.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Jul 16

Another one to add to our collection!
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social @greenflagaward.bsky.social

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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · Jun 20

We’re organising the Tree Circle Cinema, the free community film showings in South Millfields Park, on 6 Sept. We hope you’ll join us. We need to raise enough to cover the cost of putting on the event… please support us if you can:
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Help raise £750 to put on the Tree Circle Cinema 2025 - a free, annual, community event in Clapton, Hackney – JustGiving Crowdfunding

Iʼm raising money to put on the Tree Circle Cinema 2025 - a free, annual, community event in Clapton, Hackney. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

www.justgiving.com

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Jun 16

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to [email protected] by 27 June. There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Jun 10

Have you applied for the p/t Administrator post with the Tree Musketeers and not heard from us? If so, please send your sent application to [email protected] There was a problem at our end and we want to ensure we have received all applications. Thank you.

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Millfields Users Group @loveourpark.bsky.social · May 24

Come along to our plant sale on Sunday next week (1 June) from 11.00. We’re raising money to fund the Tree Circle Cinema… the annual free community film screening held in the circle of trees in South Millfields.
@tmhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social @saveleamarshes.bsky.social

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · May 18

Ecological music artist, Phoebe Coco, singing at the tree nursery Open Day yesterday. Absolutely beautiful.
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · May 18

Amazing artwork on our lockup by landscape-graffiti painter Joe Webster at our Open Day yesterday
@urbantreefest.bsky.social @greenerhackney.bsky.social

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · May 13

Going to the #HackneyMoves festival this Saturday? Pop in to the Tree Nursery Open Day on the other side of the Hackney Marshes Centre. It’s a very special place. And a very short walk. And part of the @urbantreefest.bsky.social.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · May 10

We’re hiring. We’re looking for an administrator. Part-time, freelance. We’ve been volunteer-led for 25 years but we’re now doing so much more! Please circulate.
@greenerhackney.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social

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Dan Hoare @djhbutterflies.bsky.social · May 9

Job Alert! 🌿🐛🦋📢 Could you be @savebutterflies.bsky.social new Head of Ecology Services? Leading and building our role providing advice and technical services, this role puts you at the heart of our nature recovery work! Please apply or DM for a chat about it. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Black-veined Moth by Butterfly Conservation/Mark Parsons. The image shows a creamy white moth with fine black lines across its wings, perched on a plant stem against a grassy green background

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · May 9

Come and celebrate Urban Tree Week at the tree nursery Open Day on Sat 17 May 11-16.00… or join us on Wednesday or Friday for tree tours of the nursery. @urbantreefest.bsky.social @hackneycouncil.bsky.social @sustainhackney.bsky.social

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WePlanet Australia @weplanetaus.bsky.social · May 7

The elephant in the climate space is the cow - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Innovations in food technologies mean we can now produce the foods we love with a fraction of the environmental impact.

But for farmers, producers & consumers to benefit, we need our government to act.

shorturl.at/JMy71

The climate solution that is being ignored // ft. George Monbiot.

YouTube video by WePlanet Australia

www.youtube.com

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Apr 17

Brimstone butterflies (Gonepteryx rhamni) overwinter 7 months then feed up on spring flowers. The female leads males an upward dance before tumbling down to mate. She usually lays on the 2 buckthorn (rhamnus) species, purging & alder, the caterpillars' food
#insectThursday
@ukbutterflies.bsky.social

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Apr 8

Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major). Females coat their eggs in dust & sand before flinging them at solitary bee & wasp nests with rapid twists of her body. The larvae feed parasitically on the grubs. They are around March-June…learn more about trees & bees at the Tree Nursery treemusketeers.org.uk

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Apr 4

Out in Millfields Park with tree volunteers watering and mulching the newly planted woodland. The ground is very dry. Still, the whips are growing very well.

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Apr 1

Slo-Mo video of honey bees leaving and returning to a hive at our community tree nursery.
It seems they may not be as graceful as they look in real time. The nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Mar 31

Thanks to Marlis, Sue, Jody and George for coming out on a glorious Sunday morning and watering all the trees we planted this last winter season. We’re happy to report all the trees attended to yesterday are bursting with the uplifting optimism that spring always brings with it.

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Mar 29

Volunteers planting in the field bed Ulmus VADA (Wanoux) a hybrid cultivar elm which has resistance to Dutch elm disease. Interested in learning more about trees? Why not join a volunteering session at the Tree Nursery. Help plant and grow trees. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Mar 29

Spotted a newt while clearing out the pond earlier this week. The Tree nursery is open for volunteering each Wed, Fri, and last Sat of the month from 10am-3pm. www.treemusketeers.org.uk

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Tree Musketeers @tmhackney.bsky.social · Mar 17

Hackney Downs park planting with volunteers on Sun 9 Mar. We planted 3 trees, a sorbus latifolia (broad-leaved whitebeam), a sorbus aucuparia (rowan) and a laburnum x watereri (laburnum) - adding to 7 which we planted back in Dec 24, so a total of 10 new trees this planting season.

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