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Plant 3,900 native trees around the Baobab wetland in Cincinnati

Volunteers are restoring the Baobab wetland in Cincinnati; $3,500 covers saplings, tools and waste removal.

🇺🇸 Ohio, United States4,530 views
Everett Maldonado
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Cincinnati
The Baobab wetland has been used as an informal dump for years. This May, 107 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 88 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. We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted. Where the $3,500 goes: • Native saplings and stakes: $1,800 • Tools and protective gear: $670 • Waste removal and skip hire: $840 • Signage and educational materials: $190 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to.
#environment#tree-planting#cleanup

Updates from Everett

  1. We're at 65% thanks to 42 of you. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. More news soon.

  2. 64% there. I made the first payment toward native saplings and stakes. Thank you.

  3. Quick update: $1,113 raised so far (32%). the first invoice got paid this week. Receipts coming as soon as I have them.

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    “Thinking of you. Thought of Everett all day after reading this.”

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    “Happy to help. Thought of Everett all day after reading this. - Arlington”

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  • Pankaj A. Walia

    Praying for you, Everett. I hope things turn around soon

    • Ruan P. Botha

      good luck, Everett. It takes guts to ask. Well done. Love from Gazipur.

      • Jaxon E. Cohen

        Take care. Hope you get there. Thinking of Cincinnati!

        • Raúl T. Ibáñez

          So sorry you're going through this. Great idea, hope you get there. Don't lose heart. A few weeks ago I was in a hole too and it changed faster than I expected.

          • Heather Curtis

            Sending strength, Everett. More neighborhoods should do this. Take care

            $3,962.50 raised of $3,500

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