SENIORS BOND, PLANT TREES, ENSURE LEGACY
26 March 2024
Approximately thirteen seniors from the Cedar Key Class of 2024 spent several hours this morning planting one-year-old cedar trees they had grown from seeds. with Instructor Jessica Crosby and Cedar Key resident and Tropic Trraditions Nursery owner Jim Fleming.
CEDARS COULDN’T BE MORE NATIVE
More than a year ago, Mr. Fleming and current senior Lucas Zeigler harvested the seeds from the cedar tree on the southeast corner of Second Street, right here in Cedar Key. The harvested seeds were brought back to school and potted into three-inch pots, , under the guidance and direction of Mr. Fleming. Students cared for the sprouts through the summer and while school was in session.
WHERE AND HOW
Today the healthy six-to-eight-inch very, very native cedars stretched their roots into the Cedar Key ground all about town. The little trees, approximately two hundred of them, were planted:
• along the north perimeter of the field along the marsh at Cedar Key School,
• along G Street from Eighth to Third Streets,
• across from The Market,
• throughout the cemetery perimeter,
• along the fence at the Anchor Hole parking lot area.
An efficient production line, Mr. Fleming’s colorful van/truck led the group and toted the trees, fertilizer, and the water capturing polymer. Lucas Zeigler’s and Morgan Beckham’s golf cart followed and toted fresh soil and shovels. Seniors followed, ready to dig the holes, place fertilizer and polymer in the holes, and put the trees in place with extra soil.
On Friday, April 12, from 9 am until an hour later, the group gathered, assembled, and placed a garden bed to replace Nancy Hanson’s / Lisa Mitchell’s standing but bedraggled bed.
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