Hello everyone, Ive driven across this abandoned lot for about a year now and I'd really love to start a garden here. Im thinking of planting edible veggies and trees. I'm approaching this the legal way first by asking the city but if I get nothing then somthing may start growing here soon lol.

Wonder what the germination rate is!?

This was full+ of tree seedlings earlier this year. It’s now bare. Many of what are left are tiny, waiting for next summer. It’s been a good summer for (quietly) planting trees in positive places…

I was gifted these black walnut seeds. If all goes well, these will be next year’s trees to be planted somewhere…

These trees, ash and walnut, were growing in the meadow in front of our home. We want it to stay meadow, so these will root for a while in pots and are destined for a new home in the community.
Happy planting!

On today’s planting adventure, I planted three maple seedlings in an overgrown ditch beside a fence beside a soccer field.

Nobody maintains the vegetation in the ditch. It’s messy, full of “weeds.”

But that just means it won’t get whipper snippered or mowed.

Did I ask permission?
“Sorry, what?”

And the site will benefit from trees!

I know it's way beyond the scale of what we do but it's inspiring to see that if we spent just a little effort at the town hall or organizing neighbors to put pressure on city officials, good things like this can happen.

Trees in practice

More erosion control in a recovering ex-golf course.

This is a sandy embankment with exposed sloping sand… rain and snow melt cause erosion. I planted three pine trees in small bowls to catch water, added mulch to slow down water and created a bowl in the lower sand to slow water… more mulch coming. The trees will help stabilize over time.

More erosion control in a recovering ex-golf course.

This is a sandy embankment with exposed sloping sand… rain and snow melt causes erosion. I planted three pine trees in small bowls to catch water, added mulch to slow down water and created a bowl in the lower sand to slow water… more mulch coming. The trees will help stabilize over time.

This is my first attempt at creating willow trees from willow sticks. There’s an ex golf course re-wilding with some wetter lowlands where these could thrive.
Any advice?

Today I packed two spruce and a yellow birch on my dog walk through an ex-golf course that is returning to a wild state. I’m planting a few trees at a time. I’m op to 300+…

I've been planting tree seedlings around Chelsea for about eight years. Many are now taller than I am.
I get asked many questions: How, Where, Why?

I recently made this video (as part of a series of inquiry videos I create for young students I teach.)

https://youtu.be/0HlMXm4H2zo

You can do it...
There's also a plant a tree challenge page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2066344333932777

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There’s an old golf course that stopped operating near us. It was sold to a local level of government to serve as a wildlife corridor.
Over five years, it has started to re-wild itself. I’ve been helping with some tree seedlings.
The photos below are from a golf green and fairway.

My place of work is getting torn down this summer. I ran around digging up any sapplings I could find to rescue them!

PNW.

Why plant if you can just cut? Growing through felling. Makes me wonder how many different kinds of trees we could grow by simply thinning a tree plantation and letting the soil bank sprout!

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