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Environmental service

Putting down roots.
Making room to grow.

$3,000+

worth of plants planted

More than $3,000 across our planting work.
Two volunteers working together to plant in a garden bed
Volunteers installing protective green fencing around a planted area
Plant. Protect. Care.
500

plants in two days.

At Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center, volunteers turned two days of work into a lasting addition to the landscape.

June 19–20, 2026

Project graphic documenting 500 plants in two days at Burgess-Shadbush Nature Center
A milestone from our planting work.

A change you can see

Care, made visible.

The planting project’s before-and-after images capture the work taking shape.

Before-and-after planting project graphic showing the garden bed before and after volunteers added plants
Before and after, from the supplied project photographs.
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