Sapling dig with our friends at Westminster-Canterbury

Fun was had by all retrieving 35 small saplings from Wesminister-Canterbury yesterday!

Chris, Nadine & Clay working on the largest one – a thriving live oak volunteer that needed to get some TLC by transplanting on site.

A thriving live oak volunteer (& FOLO volunteers) that was carefully moved so it could really thrive in a better location. The root ball was amazing!

Nadine & Clay cheesing with the new location. 😁

Identifying the saplings & diggin em up.

Tim, Nadine, Chris, Howard, Clay & Drew with a few of the rescued 35 saplings.

Howard & Chris repotting the saplings using McDonald’s Garden Center’s Natural & Organic Potting Soil before they’re moved to AREC.

Thanks to our partnership with McDonalds Garden Center we used 7 bags of their Natural & Organic Potting Soil. They donated 150 bags for our partnership with AREC & VDOF to build an inventory of live oaks from Virginia Beach.

A few of the rescued saplings. Pine cones placed in pots to deter squirrels digging up the smaller ones.

AREC is the vital Virginia Tech HAMPTON ROADS AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH AND EXTENSION CENTER.

VDOF is the Virginia Department of Forestry.