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Plant 3,500 native trees around the Acacia canal in Birmingham

A neighborhood-led restoration of the Acacia canal needs $1,700 for saplings and equipment.

🇺🇸 Birmingham, Alabama, United States1,533 views
Ian T. Romero
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Birmingham
The Acacia canal has been used as an informal dump for years. This December, 85 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 152 bags in a single morning. Now we want to restore it for good. We have a plan agreed with the city parks department, 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 $1,700 goes: • Signage and educational materials: $230 • Waste removal and skip hire: $840 • Native saplings and stakes: $630 Thanks for being kind about this. - Ian
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Ian

  1. 39% there. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Thank you.

  2. We're at 24% thanks to 14 of you. the plan for signage and educational materials is now scheduled. More news soon.

  3. Quick update: $199 raised so far (12%). I made the first payment toward signage and educational materials. Receipts coming as soon as I have them. - Ian

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    “Take care of yourselves. Thought of Ian all day after reading this. - Mecca”

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  • Iwan Candra Suharto

    rooting for you, Ian. Shared this with my family. The breakdown of costs made it easy to trust.

    • Gugu T. Venter

      Keep going, Ian. Shared it with a few friends. I told my book club about it and three of them are giving too

      • Adrian Dan Barbu

        Your post was clear and honest. Wish I lived closer to Arlington so I could bring a meal. Love from Kisumu.

        • Sharmila Tahmina Uddin

          Keep going, Ian. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier. All the best.

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