Green industry organizations and professionals celebrate Arbor Day Friday, April 28 with the collaborating event of planting of 20 “Jersey Grown” native trees by the Mercer County Park Commission – John A. Roebling Memorial Park at the Hamilton-Trenton border.
Volunteers will gather at the Spring Lake section of the park, off Sewell Avenue, at 10:30 a.m. to plant native trees appropriate for the site conditions.
The Park Commission looks forward to hosting the NJ Nursery and Landscape Association (NJNLA), The NJ Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture, Richard A. McCoy Horticultural Services LLC, the Northeast Organic Farming Association of NJ and the NJ Green Industry Council and thanks them for their generous donation of native trees.
A tree planting demonstration will be given by McCoy Horticultural Services as part of the volunteer planting event.
The Park Commission’s Stewardship Department celebrated Earth Day by hosting volunteer groups to help plant native trees and shrubs last week.
The volunteer groups included ISLES Climate Corps, First Bank staff from Lawrence Township, Students from the College of New Jersey, Tulpehaking Nature Center staff and New Jersey Watershed Ambassadors.
With the help of these generous organizations, over 600 native plants were installed at Mercer Meadows in Pennington, NJ. Over the course of three weeks, a total of 1,400 native shrubs and trees will be planted to replace invasive vegetation that was removed from Mercer Meadows.
The County thanks all the volunteers for their hard work!