Working with volunteer groups...

The Intervale Conservation Nursery often has groups of volunteers come for the day to help out, in many cases escaping their offices to broaden their knowledge about trees and shrubs, and to get their hands dirty! I had the privilege of working with one such group, some folks from Dealer.Com, who were at the Intervale planting trees and organizing tubes, which hold the stems before they get planted in a bed.

Spending a day at the Intervale with colleagues seems like a great idea for any office get-away, especially after seeing how the Dealer.Com crew worked together to get hemlocks planted and the back of the greenhouse organized. Not only were they outside and exploring something different, but they were collaborating with their co-workers in a new setting to accomplish a goal.

In all, we got part of a row of hemlocks planted (some of the little ones didn't want to come out of tubes!), and cleaned up the back greenhouse, sorting stems and disposing of the ones that didn't properly germinate.