Quinsigamond Community College

Saturday, October 23rd at Qunsigamond Community College from 8:30-12 we planted 65 trees with the help from the boy scouts and girl scouts. Congressman McGovern, Lt. Gov. Murray, Senator Chandler, Rep O'Day, Mayor O'Brien, City Manager O'Brien and representatives from QCC and the Scotties/ReLeaf project and American Forest were on hand. The event was sponsor by Scotties/RELeaf.

We were able to plant 65 trees in 7 different locations around the QCC campus. Spruce, Dawn Red Woods, Red Oaks, Serviceberries are just some of the species we planted. We added to the 100 trees that we previously planted with the help of CSX last spring. The weather was beautiful and everyone worked hard to learn how to properly plant a tree and then planted the trees. Everyone recieved goody bags from QCC and t-shirts/bags from Scotties REleaf. It was a great effort of the community coming together to help plant trees in one of the hardest hit areas.



Read about the day!

WTI in the Worcester Telegram

Holden Give Away

Today we held a give away at a new development called Shady Lane in Holden. We were able to give away 52 trees. The demonstration were held in peoples yard. We gave away flowering plums, dogwoods, blackgum tupelo and cherry trees. The developments in Holden have been stripped off all the trees in order to make room for houses, the developer is then responsable for "replanting" but most of the time only one or two trees are planted per lot. It is nice to be able to add more trees to these neighborhoods.

Midland Elementary School Planting

Today along with the kindergarden at Midland Street Elementary school we planted two cherry trees to help add some trees to the new place space that the school completed over the summer. The highlight of the day was when I poured the water into the hole all of the kids started yelling "gross! gross!" but after explaining to them the importance of water to the trees survival they didn't think it was as gross. They also really enjoyed when I was breaking the root ball apart, as I described it as if I were giving it a hair cut, they thought I had given the tree a really cool hair cut.

Tracking Update

We have been working hard to try and collect data regarding all of the trees we have planted throughout the last two years. We have started making progress on the 2009 residents. All of our trees from 2009 were planted in the Burncoat neighborhood.

From 2009 Residents:

44 Streets have been visited. 53 Streets need to be visited.

247 Addresses have been visited. 2009 Resident Total Number of Addresses: 1077

88 or 36% can’t be viewed from the street

2 Trees need to be stacked:

9 Cutting Avenue

100 Francis

2 Dead:

92 Francis

35 Randall Street (we have already removed the tree, died cause it was planted above to many roots)

2nd Give Away of the Fall.

Today was our second give away of the Fall at ERA Key Reality on East Mountain Street. We had a good turnout and were able to gave away over 50 trees. Many of our trees went to Blaire Drive in Holden MA where we are working with the street to help them add a few more trees to there neighborhood.