tree board goes shopping

We had a great trip to Mt.Vernon to the Urban Forestry Nursery and a nice visit with Newman.

tree board goes shopping

Day of service in Ferndale....

October work party

Alcoa workers volunteered many hours and accomplished several great plantings and cleanups in Ferndale on this day of service for these community projects sponsored by the Ferndale Heritage Society.

here is a playlist of 3 sites in Ferndale that recieved clean-up and planting on this day of service....

Arbor Day- Earth Day Celebration

The trees were planted !!!! Our day started with heavy rain. Then the rain stopped and teams of great volunteers planted and staked up many trees in Pioneer Park. WOW!
Thanks to everyone who participated.
We had coffee and donuts and I, for one, had a great time.

Here are a few shots throughout the planting. Unfortunately my new camera either doesn't work as well as the old one or I have a learning curve in my future. In any case, the photos aren't as good as I would like, but that never stops me from posting them.

Arbor Day-Earth Day celebration in Pioneer Park

Here is the process of planting each tree. It was sure nice to have such efficient, capable teams!!

our trip south to look at trees....

We made a trip to Urban Forest Nursery, Inc. in Mt. Vernon and Jim and his beautiful Newfoundland had some good recommendations for us. We also visited Christianson's Nursery to get some tree ideas for the Main St. planters.

getting ready for Earth Day Arbor Day

We plotted out the planting of over 25 new trees in Pioneer Park on a cold "spring" morning.

Planning the Earth day/Arbor tree planting in Pioneer park

catching up...

Here are a few photos taken last November at the Bergsma house where Bertella, Jon and I selected trees we would keep to transplant this month at Pioneer Park. The trees have grown too large for easy transplant so we took some out and will make the best effort we can to transplant some. Bertella and I also looked at some other trees around town.

at Bergma house and in town

We are looking forward to our coming replanting of trees..

getting started......

the beautiful maples in front of the Library are a stunning show this year. We will be looking for 2 more of these trees to plant in a location we have identified downtown. stay tuned.........

fall in front of the library

and catching up...we had nice walk thru downtown and identified potential places for trees, benches and large pot plantings.

downtown walk thru