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Plant 1,500 native trees around the Union canal in Grand Rapids
Help us clean and replant the Union canal before the November planting window closes.
🇺🇸 Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States899 views
The Union canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 84 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 187 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good.
We have a plan agreed with the municipal water board, including native species selected by a local botanist.
The area floods more each year, and fish have returned for the first time in a decade after our first cleanup. Restoring it will protect homes and bring back shade.
All the labor is volunteered. We just need materials.
Funds buy saplings, gloves, bags, hire of a skip, and signage.
Where the $2,350 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,550
• Signage and educational materials: $290
• Waste removal and skip hire: $510
I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
- Aaron
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Praying for you, Aaron. Hope this works out for you.
Best of luck. This could happen to any of us. It's not much but it's yours. God bless.
good luck. More neighborhoods should do this. My husband and I read this together. God bless.
Hang in there, Aaron. Projects like this are what make a place worth living in.
Wishing you peace. This could happen to any of us. I have a 13 year old who wants to send good wishes too
You're not alone. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. We're a small family in London but we're thinking of you. Blessings.
hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Love from Belfast.