The Washington High School FFA, and
other community members, planted a mix of shade, flowering,
and evergreen trees on their campus on Saturday, April 12th,
2014.. We had 26 volunteers, made up of FFA members,
parents, teachers and community members along with Tanner
Haid, the CTree Liaison. Tanner Haid flagged the planting
site several days before the planting event and a community
volunteer used an auger to pre-dig the holes. The trees were
picked up the day before the planting and were stored
overnight in a covered livestock trailer. The morning of the
planting, Dunkin Donuts provided breakfast for all of the
volunteers.
At the beginning of the planting,
Tanner gave a very informational presentation before the
work began and due to the large number of volunteers, the
actual planting took about an hour and half. Around 11:30
am, all of the trees had been planted, just in time for the
arrival of pizza. Local members of Citizens Fire Company
brought the brush truck by to water all of our freshly
planted trees. We had a beautiful day for this project and I
couldn't have asked for a more simple process to organize
and plan this event. Mr. Haid was an excellent resource and
was extremely helpful. Plans are in the works to do a
similar planting at Citizens Fire Company in the fall and
possibly expand our work at the Washington High School
campus.
A word from the Project Leader, FFA
Teacher Katlin Thorsell:
“My favorite part of this project was
seeing my students learning and really enjoying themselves.
They seemed to really understand the purpose of this project
and they all had a wonderful time. I think it's important to
give back to the community and this is definitely something
that they will appreciate later down the road.”
