Harry Ewing is heaping branches and foliage from the forest flooring on to a useless hedge, reinforcing the protecting circle round his newly planted timber in Hadley Wooden, north London. He’s in a glade created by a fallen oak that was beforehand overrun with thick bramble.

“I really feel very comfortable – the timber are rising already. It’s very nice seeing it when it begins,” says Ewing.

The 20-year-old is a part of a gaggle of younger adults with studying disabilities who’re reworking their surroundings and breaking into inexperienced sector jobs. They’re engaged on a bit of the London Tree Ring, an bold venture to create corridors of plant and animal life across the capital.

On this part, new willow, hornbeam and hazelnut will diversify the age construction of the forest, and strengthen its biodiversity. Having strimmed away the bramble and planted the youthful timber, Ewing and his co-workers are experimenting with other ways to guard them from deer.