MBFP2020

The average return flight from Birmingham to Amsterdam creates between 227kg and 324kg of CO2 depending on airline and plane. If we average that to 250kg it will take 3sqm to sequester that flight’s carbon on our croft.
Typically a carbon offsetting scheme will charge around £10 and £20 per flight based on this amount of CO2 (as calculated on the Atmosfair.de), depending on what each project is aiming to achieve.

Donate as you feel and you will not only be sequestering your CO2 and gifting a woods to Mike and Faye, but you will be supporting our scheme which is about restoring biodiversity, giving shelter to animals, maintaining and restoring the peat and the carbon stored there.

Each cubic metre of peat stores 100kg of CO2. This, alongside planting trees, which each sequester 1000 kg over 40 years, we will be experimenting with feeding our land management sheep on tree silage, which reduces their methane and CO2 output, reduces the need for worming and increases the weight of the sheep over the winter when the grass needs time to recover, to sequester more carbon and to produce nitrogen in the soil. We use biodegradable tree shields so as not to be adding microplastic to the water table and all our power will be solar and wind generated.

In addition the Woods dedicated to Mike and Faye will be a place they can visit and camp in when the wish to. The wood will be fenced off to protect and mark it and will have a gate with a symbol of each of them, commemorating their love.
We will send an update to contributors on completion of each stage, from choosing the site, fencing it, planting it and each year on the anniversary of their partnership. We will place a commemorative plaque and a timber kissing gate in the new deer fencing which will protect the new planted trees. Each contributors initials will be stamped on a disc to be attached to the fence.