2009 Spring RNeighborWoods Planting

On Saturday, April 25, over 150 neighbors, youth, and other community volunteers worked together to plant 100 trees in the Kutkzy Park neighborhood. Types of trees planted include Cleveland Pear (smaller tree for under power lines), Ginkgo, Kentucky Coffeetree, and Amur Maackia and now fill approximately 4,393 feet of boulevards. Once again we had a large youth representation, as well as a record number of Citizen Foresters who came out to guide the volunteers.

Over its lifetime, each street tree planted on Saturday will produce a net profit of up to $2,300 by cleaning the air, protecting the water, and creating a cooler and greener Kutzky Park neighborhood (U.S. Forest Service’s Midwest Community Tree Guide).

An RNeighbors program, RNeighborWoods partners worked for months to organize this successful event and include Herring Exterior Design, Maier Forest & Tree, Olmsted County Youth Commission, Olmsted County Vital Aging Commission, Rochester City Forester, Rochester Public Utilities, and Quarry Hill Nature Center.

Neighborhood business were generous in providing sponsorships. Roscoe’s BBQ provided a hot lunch to the chilly tree planters and came out early in the morning to share their tent with us that we used for registration of the planters.

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