Today our girls joined a huge number of volunteers to plant trees in Floyd Bennett Field. They learned how to carefully pull the trees out of the pots, tease the roots out and how to securely plant them without getting air pockets in the hole.
This event was wonderfully organized. The volunteers were divided into groups (our girls chose sparkly gold!) and given a "color captain" who demonstrated what to do. Holes were pre-dug with the potted trees dropped into each hole. It made the process amazingly quick, and our troop planted around 200 trees!! Altogether, the volunteers planted over 6,000 trees.
What was really wonderful was how our girls really understood the impact their trees would make.
Sara said, "When I grow up I want our troop and our kids to go to the place and it will be a forest."
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