John Lennon & Yoko Ono's Peace Acorns

40th Anniversary of Planting in Coventry Cathedral

John Lennon and Yoko Ono planted two acorns in Coventry Cathedral’s Unity Lawn on June 15, 1968, as the couple's first peace event and as part of the cathedral's sculptural exhibition. The acorns were planted on an east-west axis, symbolizing both John and Yoko's love and peace between east and west. Tourists dug up the acorns and Lennon had a row with the exhibition organizers over the moving of the bench that had been sitting above the acorn ground. In 1969, John and Yoko mailed acorns to world leaders asking them to plant the acorns for peace. Though half of the John and Yoko peace team is gone, the planting of seeds for peace continues to this day...

On 15 June 1968, John Lennon and I planted two acorns for peace at Coventry Cathedral. It was the first of our many Peace 'Events.' In the summer of 1996, I picked up from where I left off, and wrote 100 Acorns. The Acorn Peace Event on 15 June 2008 marks our 40th anniversary.

Yoko Ono