Find the oldest tree near you and work out its age
“You've walked past it a hundred times. Fifteen minutes in, you'll know it's older than the street it stands on.”
The Recipe
- Find the biggest, most weathered tree within walking distance: a park veteran, a churchyard yew, the one too big for the pavement it buckles.
- Reach around the trunk at chest height and pace out its girth, then measure it; for a tree grown in the open, roughly a centimetre of girth is a year of growth.
- Do the sum, and stand with the number a moment: what it already was, before any of this around it was here.
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