Girl Scouts get their hands dirty at Briggs Animal Adoption Center! Prior to planting day, the National Humane Education Society maintenance department staff created a planting plan, augured the holes, and delivered all of the trees and planting materials to each hole. A local girl scout troop participated in this environmental service project to receive [...]
“Bringing Bark to South Raleigh” was a tree planting dream turned reality. On Saturday, April 21, over forty community volunteers participated in this CommuniTree planting on South Raleigh Street in Martinsburg behind the high school football stadium. The volunteers included 28 adults and 15 youth, mainly from Martinsburg High School FFA. Other volunteers included RotarACT [...]
Mountain Ridge Middle School participated in Cacapon Institute’s Potomac Headwaters Leaders of Watersheds (PHLOW) Grow-a-Garden project under the leadership of teacher Rebecca Ellis. Grow-a-Garden teaches students about watersheds and non-point source water pollution, especially stormwater runoff pollution, harmful materials carried to streams by rain water. Students learn the benefits a rain garden has on their [...]
Blue skies, bright students, and 16 trees to plant at the Moorefield Town Park. This was the situation on the morning of Friday, April 13 as Juwana Bridger with Moorefield Parks and Recreation was preparing to plant their CommuniTree kit. Employees of the Town of Moorefield dug all of the holes a day prior to [...]
Thirty-seven 2nd and 3rd grade students at North Fork Elementary School participated in the PHLOW Grow a Garden program this spring. This was the first time Cacapon Institute worked with lead instructor Pam Waybright to improve their campus and enrich student learning. This spring students planted a native rain garden to beautify the schoolyard. Cacapon [...]
Over 60 volunteers participated in this planting along Dry Run Road in Apple Knolls subdivision to plant 24 trees on Saturday, April 14. The neighborhood, which consists of approximately 300 single family homes, is on the site of a former orchard apple. Even though the trees planted through this project weren’t apple trees, they will [...]
