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Tyler Clark shovels dirt into wheelbarrow at Treez Please Common Ground
Common Ground Second Planting May 2008
When the Mahoning County Soil and Water Conservation District called and asked if we could take some of the left-over trees they'd ordered for spring, we sprang into action.
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Organizing a small army of volunteer and member planters, we gathered on a fine Saturday morning in May and did our best to put 200 seedling trees into a mound of fresh topsoil we had trucked in previously to make a meadow. We planted serpentine rows of lacebark elm, hickory, gingko, paw paw, white pine, mulberry and sycamore. The trees did very well that summer and many were moved to permanent locations in the fall. The next summer, however, all of the remaining trees were mowed off by an overly-enthusiastic city parks crew,who evidently didn't recognize them as nursery stock.
photo of all the volunteer and members planting trees at common ground in May 2008 Mary Krupa and young volunteers planting seedling trees on a Saturday in May 2008 at common ground The volunteers out standing in their field, are at common ground with the sign prominently displayed The serpentine furrows in the ground that got planted with tree seedlings at common ground