Saturday, December 6 – Hawthorne Middle School + High School, Hawthorne
On a overcast, misty morning we planted twenty-six trees – live oaks (Quercus virginiana), Florida maples (Acer floridanum), red cedars (Juniperus virginiana), and several experimental elm hybrids – on the Middle and High School campuses.
Saturday, October 25 – Gainesville
We planted a dozen trees in the Lake Forest Farms neighborhood and another eight trees at the nearby Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Species planted included Florida maples (Acer floridanum), hackberries (Celtis occidentalis), sycamores (Platanus occidentalis), live oaks (Quercus virginiana), and crepe myrtles (Lagerstroemia indica).
Saturday, September 27 – Jill McGuire Lake Santa Fe Park, Melrose
In 2024 the Santa Fe Lake Park was renamed and dedicated to Jill McGuire (1945–2023) a local environmental icon, community leader, and longtime President of the Santa Fe Lake Dwellers Association, in recognition of her decades of advocacy for protecting the Santa Fe Lakes, Swamp, and River. For our first planting of the Fall semester, we gathered under blustery skies to plant seventeen trees: sand live oaks (Quercus geminata), southern magnolias (Magnolia grandiflora), and Chickasaw plums (Prunus angustifolia).
Photographs by A. Ewert-Harpold, T. Harpold, C. Houder, D. Jordan, H.H. Rays, S. Xie, and D. Zhu. / CC BY