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Plant 1,950 native trees around the Union hillside in Brandon

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Union hillside needs $2,850 for saplings and equipment.

🇨🇦 R7Y 9X4, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada2,213 views
Nicholas Cox
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Brandon
The Union hillside has been used as an informal dump for years. This July, 60 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 172 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the local forestry office, 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 $2,850 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,400 • Tools and protective gear: $580 • Waste removal and skip hire: $750 • Signage and educational materials: $120 Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly. - Nicholas
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Nicholas

  1. Update from Brandon: the first invoice got paid this week. We're at 33% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

  2. Update from Brandon: the plan for tools and protective gear is now scheduled. We're at 19% of the goal. Thank you for believing in us.

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  • Cherry T. Enriquez

    Rooting for you. Hope the build day goes well, wish I lived closer. Take care.

    • Dayo Kunle Quadri

      Rooting for you, Nicholas. More neighborhoods should do this. Love from Los Angeles.

      • Óscar T. Chávez

        Hope it all works out, Nicholas. Shared this with my family. All the best

        • Skylar Reynolds

          Hang in there, Nicholas. It takes guts to ask. Well done.

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