A short page for clergy.
Easter Trees is open to people of every faith and none. But the campaign sits across Lent and Easter Sunday, so it makes sense some ministers might want a line they can use. Here’s what we are, what we’d ask, and what we’d offer in return — without preaching it back at you.
What Easter Trees is, in a sentence
The first national Easter Trees weekend is 26–28 March 2027. Households bring a small potted blossom tree home in Lent, decorate it with edible bird-food ornaments and written hopes on rice paper, and plant it on Easter Sunday — or any day in the week after — in a garden, a churchyard, a school field, or a community spot. Year by year, family by family, towns and villages bloom.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”
— John 12:24
A small living thing comes home in Lent. It is dwelt with. On Easter Sunday it is put into the earth. And the next spring, and every spring after, it is found alive. The parallel is yours to draw or not.
What we’d ask of clergy
Three things, none onerous.
- Mention it to your congregation in the run-up to Easter 2027.
- If you have a churchyard, manse garden, or church field, consider hosting one Easter Sunday planting (or any day in the week after that suits the parish calendar).
- Tell us afterwards what worked and what didn’t. We’re learning.
What we’d offer back
A practical Faith Partner Pack in July 2026: a sermon outline you’re free to ignore or adapt, a prayer of blessing for the planting, a churchwarden FAQ, and a churchyard suitability checklist. A named regional contact ahead of your autumn PCC. The campaign itself as a free, gentle, calendar-anchored thing your parish can opt into without adding admin to anyone’s plate.
A few practical ideas
- Holy Week — a midweek decorating session with the youth group, the PCC, or a Sunday-school class. Rice-paper hopes hung quietly. Suet-blossom recipe here.
- Sunday school — the four acts (Buy, Decorate, Plant, Return) work as a story for primary-aged children. Decoration ideas page.
- Churchyard or church-garden planting — Open Your Land walks through the practicals in 10 minutes. Faculty consent, DAC approval, insurance and aftercare are addressed honestly there.
- Pew-sheet line for Easter weekend — we’ll send a paragraph your churchwarden can paste in. Email tara@eastertrees.com to request one.
Easter Trees is a registered Community Interest Company (no. 17188547), founded by Tara Button. We’re not a faith organisation — just a community initiative that hopes to be useful to faith communities. Nothing on this page is asking for endorsement. If you preach it, preach it as your own.