# Trees on the Land

> All-island Irish initiative distributing free native trees for one big planting season every winter

Source: https://treerm.org/org/trees-on-the-land · Updated 2026-11-08 · Data license: CC BY 4.0 (https://treerm.org/about#license)

## Facts

- Type: Nonprofit
- Scope: National
- Headquarters: Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland
- Founded: 2013
- Website: https://www.treesontheland.com
- Donate: https://www.treesontheland.com/donate
- Countries where they plant: United Kingdom, Ireland
- Activity types: Tree adoption & giveaways (primary), Afforestation, Agroforestry
- Trees on record: 3,000,000 (larger of latest cumulative figure and sum of annual figures; trees planted or distributed)

## About

Trees on the Land is a cross-border, not-for-profit project of the Green Economy Foundation (Irish Natural Forestry Foundation CLG, registered charity 20055110) that supplies young native trees to farmers, schools, community groups, councils and landowners across all 32 counties of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Founded by Imogen Rabone, it began with a pilot that planted just over 100,000 trees in one day in spring 2013 and grew into an annual programme in which several hundred planting projects receive trees to plant between December and March. The project reports well over three million native trees planted since 2013; applications for the winter 2026 to spring 2027 season closed on 18 October 2026.

## Programs

- **Annual tree distribution and planting season** — Tree adoption & giveaways (2013–present): Landowners, schools and community groups apply in summer and autumn for free or low-cost native trees, which are distributed and planted between December and March. https://www.treesontheland.com/plant-trees

## Metrics

> Note: Trees on the Land publishes only cumulative totals: just over 100,000 trees in the 2013 pilot, over 1 million by May 2020 and more than 3 million by 2024-2026. It does not publish per-season distribution figures, so there is no recent annual metric. Trees are supplied to recipients who plant them, so figures are recorded as trees distributed. The project's parent charity is based in County Cork (registered address Kilnaclasha, Skibbereen; office at Myross Wood House, Leap); its founder is based in England.

| Metric | Year | Value | Cumulative | Program | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---:|---|---|---|---|
| Trees distributed | 2013 | 100,000 | no (that year) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://www.treesontheland.com/one-million-trees-in-one-day) Project history page: the first pilot planting in spring 2013 planted 'just over 100,000 trees in one day'. |
| Trees distributed | 2020 | 1,000,000 | yes (to date) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://greeneconomyfoundation.ie/trees-on-the-land-passes-the-1000000-mark/) Green Economy Foundation news post, 22 May 2020: 'planting of over 1,000,000 native trees throughout Ireland'. |
| Trees distributed | 2024 | 3,000,000 | yes (to date) | organization-wide | Independently verified | [source](https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2024/08/24/what-imogen-rabone-did-after-noticing-that-the-big-old-trees-were-missing-from-the-irish-countryside) The Irish Times, 24 August 2024: Trees on the Land 'has planted 3 million young trees across the island of Ireland' since 2013. |
| Trees distributed | 2026 | 3,000,000 | yes (to date) | organization-wide | Self-reported | [source](https://www.treesontheland.com/one-million-trees-in-one-day) Project history page (read Nov 2026): 'well over three million trees since 2013'; homepage: 'We have planted more than 3 million native trees across the 32 counties.' |

Confidence: self-reported is the organization's own published figure; independently verified means a third party confirmed it; estimated means TreeRM derived it and the note says how.

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