Volunteers Needed To Help Plant Trees Saturday
300 trees donated from Reforest Richmond will populate a barren bike path near Fairfield Elementary in Richmond’s East End. Richmond Cycling Corps, the non-profit spearheading the planting, could use some help. (Photo: Ian Stewart/VPM News)
If you have gloves and a shovel, you can help plant some 300 trees along a barren bike path at Armstrong Bike Park, near Fairfield Elementary, in Richmond’s East End this Saturday.
The trees have been donated from Reforest Richmond, which is trying to increase the city’s tree canopy by 60% by 2037.
The decade old non-profit Richmond Cycling Corps is spearheading the planting. The group is a small outreach program that uses cycling as a means to build relationships with youth living in the East End.