ARBOR DAY 2020 IS FRIDAY APRIL 24!
We started planting trees for Arbor Day with local schools 17 years ago when our daughter was a youngster at MVK Grade School. She’s graduating from grad school this spring! Every year since then we have planted at MVK Grade School and several other area schools. We enjoy teaching the kids about the benefits of trees and letting them dig in to plant a tree at their school. This year will be different as the local schools are all closed, and we can’t get out there with the kids. We are really going to miss that!
To celebrate in a different way, we are partnering with my brother & sister-in-law’s company iTrees.com to plant trees for deserving health care professionals in our community. We have been accepting nominations from the community these past few weeks and the lucky winners will be announced on Arbor Day. Here is a link to more about the program: Planting Peace, Growing Hope
To learn more about the benefits of trees, check out our Tree Resource Page for more or our Social, Economic, & Environmental Benefits of Trees Info Sheet. Here are a few more links to articles about our plantings at schools. It’s fun to remember the kids & trees over the years!
We thought it would also be fun to take a look back at our Arbor Day plantings through the years. Enjoy! You can also see more pics of the fun plantings in our ARBOR DAY PHOTO GALLERY. Finally, you can also learn more at Arbor Day website https://www.arborday.org/
Happy Planting!

MVK 8th Grade 2010

ICS Earth Day 2009

Saratoga Arbor Day 2009

Gardner Tree Planting 2009

Coal City Arbor Day 2009

Gardner Arbor Day 2010

ICS Arbor Day 2010

Saratoga Planting 2010

MVK Arbor Day 2010

Coal City 2010

Gardner Grade School 2011

Dwight Grade School 2011

Coal City 2011

Braceville Arbor Day 2011

MVK Planting 2012

ICS Planting 2012

Gardner Planting 2012

South Wilmington Planting 2012

Seneca Planting 2012

South Wilmington 2013

Seneca Arbor Day 2013

Saratoga Elementary Arbor Day 2013

MVK Arbor Day 2013

ICS Arbor Day 2013

Gardner Grade School 2013

Coal City Planting 2013

Braceville Elementary 2013

Seneca Arbor Day 2014

MVK Arbor Day 2014

ICS Arbor Day 2014

Coal City Arbor Day 2014

Arbor Day Joey Planting 2014

Seneca Arbor Day 2015

MVK 4th Grade 2015

ICS Arbor Day Planting 2015

Coal City Arbor Day 2015

MVK Planting 2016

MVK Arbor Day 2016

MVK Arbor Day 2017

MVK Planting 2018

MVK Arbor Day 2018

MVK Arbor Day 2019

MVK Arbor Day Planting 2019

MVK Arbor Day 2005

MVK Arbor Day Planting 2008

MVK Tree Planting 2009

MVK Arbor Day 2010

MVK Arbor Day 2008
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