Woman plants thousands of trees after buying Lake District fell

Low Fell was bought by Buy Land Plant Trees for about £148,000.

“It was on the market for a good long while,” said Ms Phillips.

“I always keep my eye on land that comes up for sale and no one else bid for it, so I managed to get it at a good price.”

Ms Phillips has a business making sustainable products and then invests 20% of its profits into the community interest company, which uses the money to purchase land.

“When you’re concerned about the environment there’s a lot to worry about, and you can’t do something about everything but planting trees makes things better,” she said.

“They’re good for biodiversity, they’re good for carbon capture and they’re good for flood mitigation which in an area like this, in the Cockermouth catchment, matters a lot.”