Pictures from the 2011 Tree Planting

Friends of The Moshassuck has been planting trees at Collyer Field in Providence for over 10 years. The site is a field of invasive alien Japanese knotweed, and our planting is an effort to eliminate the invasive alien weed by growing big and tall trees to shade it out. Preliminary results suggest that the effort is starting to bear fruit, and under the earliest plantings (and biggest trees) the knotweed is showing the effects of shading. We believe this is a community-friendly, totally non-toxic, way to deal with one of the most invasive plants in Southern New England and would be happy to help any local organizations seeking to restore areas damaged by knotweed. We start by scanning the planting field and working with a Providence Trees 2020 specialist

We meet and greet and give thanks to the perfect weather in which we can participate in a tree planting event.

We each dig a hole appropriate for the type and size of tree we are to add to the field.

We plant the trees, water them with water from the Moshassuck River nearby, and then clean up the field for any obstacles that will prevent easy access to the trees during their first summer in a permanent home.

Pictures from previous tree planting events are available here.