On Tuesday Truman came out and maintained 5000 sq. ft. at 14th and Holly. They also planted 18 trees – several paper birch or betula papyrifera, and several red alder or alnus rubra, and then another 8 conifers. Although it’s past the season when we usually plant, we received these plants in the last few weeks and decided to give them a shot.
Thursday Truman came out battled the mosquitos to maintain 6000 sq. ft. at 14th and Holly by pulling blackberry and weeds. The area looks fabulous now! They also pulled 3 cubic yards of ivy in the lower ivy site at 14th and Holly. Laura’s House home school group also came out on Thursday for a couple of hours. They dug blackberry and maintained 500 sq. ft. next to the wetland at 14th and Holly.
Laura’s House
Saturday was a small group of dedicated volunteers – Isaac, Jamie, Katie, and Lisa, but they did a huge amount of work. The group maintained 6,000 sq. ft. at 14th and Holly by digging blackberry, and started maintaining/removing hawthorn, holly, and mountain ash in a 1,000 sq. ft. of the future WNPS ’08 site. They also blazed an exploratory trail into the blackberry down at that site.
