Tuesday, April 23, 2013

TREES EVERYWHERE


So. Many. Trees. It’s overwhelming. I don’t think there’s ever been this many trees in one spot in Appleton before. I don’t even know what to do. There are so many.

I can’t give a decent estimate as to how many there are, because I didn’t see them all. The trees are pretty tall, maybe a bit over six or so feet on average.  There’s pear trees, apple trees, peach trees, cherry trees, gooseberry bushes, raspberries, buffalo berries (I have no idea what those are), nantuk cherries (they’re a bush?), frostberries, (whatever those are) and grapes that had really long roots.

Folks at Riverview have spent all day digging holes for them, and making mounds of wet woodchips in the garage to store the ones that can’t get planted yet. It’s going to take a lot of man hours. Luckily, there’s a big group coming out this weekend from Appleton North High School. Kudos to them!

It’s actually very exciting, now is a great time to come to Riverview.  It’s pretty reliably over 40 degrees, the mud honestly isn’t that bad, there’s stuff to do besides painting walls, and, yup, there’s trees everywhere! 

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