Lemon Tree Trust

Spring is a season of beginnings. Of soil under fingernails. Of tender green shoots pushing through dry ground 🌱🌸

This spring, you can help families displaced by war grow gardens at their shelters that bring food, shade, sanctuary and beauty to the places they now call home.

Many refugee and IDP (internally displaced people) camps have grown into dense, city-like settlements where green space is scarce. Trees and plants cool the air, attract birds and pollinators and soften harsh edges. And when neighbours swap cuttings and share seedlings, something else begins to grow too: community.

Every donation to our Spring Tree & Plant Appeal will be matched, up to £30,000 GBP / $39,500 USD. So whatever you give goes twice as far, helping more families and neighbourhoods grow.

Find out more and donate via the link in our bio. Thank you for being part of this.

Happy Easter to everyone celebrating this weekend 🐣💐

Imagine the smell of fresh bread drifting through the garden while your hands are in the soil, tending your veggies 🍞🌿😋

That’s daily life for our Hêvî community gardeners in Gawilan camp, thanks to your amazing support over the last couple of years.

With two traditional tannour ovens, our bakery house is a lively spot where women gather to bake khubz – Syrian flatbreads they can’t make in their home shelters.

And this week, our bakers have been mixing things up with two extra varieties alongside the traditional khubz:
– Bread topped with a sauce of red sweet pepper, zaatar and olive oil, usually saved for special occasions
– Sesame and nigella seeded bread

The ovens are busy, the garden’s thriving and the smell of fresh bread makes it all even better 🫶

Plenty of happy smiles from our gardeners of the future! 🌱

These recent photos snapped in the Hêvî Community Garden in Gawilan camp show young hands working alongside their mums.

Tending raised beds, harvesting herbs, aubergines, radishes, leafy greens, flowers and more!

And sharing the joy of growing together 🥰

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Gardening brings peace, connection and creativity to people of all ages, wherever we are in the world.

Our cheerful mascot Lenny Lemon has plenty of simple, hands on ideas for gardening with children and young people. From leaf art and colourful plant labels to mini wormeries and more! 🍋🍂

Download the activity sheets, available in a variety of languages, for free from our website (link in bio).

With gratitude to the RHS for allowing us to adapt their brilliant resources.