A Windbreak for Campus

October is a great time to plant perennial shrubs and trees. This project day started with lessons in: ecology, fire and windbreaks, succession, native plants and restoration. The Riverstone International School 9th graders are a great group of students who seemed to enjoy making campus a more friendly place for wildlife, more fire resilient and a better place for education!

This part of campus abuts a wild area and we get a long reach for the wind to pick up weeds and invasive plant seeds and deposit them into campus. Part of this project is to provide shade and places for education and another is to provide a weed fence using native trees and shrubs along the property line.

We had nurtured the native trees and shrubs in our Native Plant Nursery- Sawdust beds over the summer and seen quite a bit of growth, it was time to get them in the ground!