Planting a forest for my 50th birthday

I turn 50 in 2026. As a birthday celebration with all my family and friends, I would like to plant a forest!

BRITAIN has one of the poorest records of protection and management of forests in Europe, according to a World Wide Fund for Nature survey which ranks the United Kingdom 12th out of 15 countries. I love trees and find my happy place in a forest, and would like to renew a piece of degraded land in the UK into a verdant forest, in time for my 50th birthday in 2026.

Things I Can Do

How do I want to do this? I'm hoping to get, 50 of my friends to raise 5 saplings of trees native to the UK. In three years from 2023, I'm hoping that the saplings will be mature enough to be able to take root in a piece of degraded land, where I promise to care for them till they are strong and vibrant.