Trees on the Land is a cross-border initiative working to establish young native trees across the 32 counties of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

We run an annual tree planting event where landowners and groups of helpers turn out to plant their trees on a selected Saturday in February. Our 2020 planting day took place on Saturday 15th February. Due to Covid-19 we will not have a planting day in 2021 but we will be distributing and planting trees throughout the winter season to March 2021.

We provide simple schemes for landowners to access quality native tree mixes each season. We work with farmers, smallholders, community groups, councils, schools, colleges, sports clubs and many other landowners to coordinate sites to accommodate trees.

Our vision is to establish tree cover and woodland in rural and urban areas that will grow for many years and provide valuable resources, beneficial ecosystem services and a lasting legacy for future generations.

We plant small woodlands, orchards, hedgerows, shelter belts, coppice, wood-pasture, agroforestry, individual trees, rows and avenues of trees, landscape and amenity trees, reforestation sites and larger woodlands. We have planted more than a million trees at several thousand sites since 2013.

If you would like to plant trees on your land click here.

If you would like to help us with a donation please click here.



The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago.

The second best time is now. Old Chinese Proverb