BRG’s Celebration of 2018 Louisiana Arbor Week Included Plantings, Luncheon

On Sat­ur­day, Jan­u­ary 13, 2018, Baton Rouge Green worked with near­ly two dozen vol­un­teers to plant six 15-gal­lon Bald­cy­press, the state tree of Louisiana, as part of The Walls Project’s MLK Fes­ti­val of Ser­vice 2018. The trees, donat­ed by the LSU Aqua­cul­ture Research Sta­tion, were plant­ed next to Big Broth­ers Meat Mar­ket. The event helped kick off Baton Rouge Green’s cel­e­bra­tions for Louisiana Arbor Week.

On Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 15, Baton Rouge Green also worked with dozens of vol­un­teers from Ameri­corps and oth­er groups to plant 22 canopy trees, includ­ing bald­cy­press, winged elm and bur oak, near The Women’s Help Cen­ter at 76^th Street and Scenic High­way (see below.)

Arbor Day is a nation­al­ly cel­e­brat­ed obser­vance that encour­ages tree plant­i­ng and care. Although in most of the coun­try Arbor Day is cel­e­brat­ed lat­er in the year, Louisiana’s Arbor Day is always the third Fri­day in Jan­u­ary, tree-plant­i­ng sea­son in South Louisiana.