“The trees had waited a whole year for this. First potted as seedlings last spring, hundreds of them on Saturday got shucked from their small homes and upgraded to roomier accommodations thanks to the efforts of some 25 volunteers celebrating Earth Day. The effort was only the next step, however, in preparing those trees to reforest an overused Delaware campground — they’ll wait out summer in those new pots before getting into the ground in September.”
“I love doing Earth Day activities, and I especially love getting my hands in the soil and working with plants,” said Kristy Northrup, an agriculture graduate student at the University of Delaware.
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