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Plant 3,950 native trees around Pioneer Beach in Winston-Salem
A neighborhood-led restoration of Pioneer Beach needs $2,900 for saplings and equipment.
🇺🇸 Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States4,047 views
Pioneer Beach has been used as an informal dump for years. This August, 58 neighbors turned up for a first cleanup, filling 156 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.
We'll post planting day photos and a count of every sapling planted.
Where the $2,900 goes:
• Native saplings and stakes: $1,150
• Tools and protective gear: $730
• Waste removal and skip hire: $760
• Signage and educational materials: $260
Please ask me anything in the questions section. I'll answer honestly and quickly.
- Lauren
Updates from Lauren
We're at 74% thanks to 63 of you. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. More news soon.
Thank you all. We're at 40% now ($1,146). I'm honestly stunned. we've started the first stage.
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Shared this with my family. Love from Gazipur.
praying for you, Lauren. I've been in a tough spot myself and it does get easier
this could happen to any of us. I'm in farming myself and wanted you to know we're cheering for you. Love from Madina.
Wishing you the best, Lauren. Hope you get there. Thinking of Winston-Salem.
Hang in there. I hope things turn around soon. I'll check back for the next update.
so sorry you're going through this. Great idea, hope you get there. I have a 11 year old who wants to send good wishes too. Blessings.