Ongoing Treeforestation Projects
The Civic Garden Center’s current ongoing Treeforestation projects are located at Walnut Hills High School and St. Xavier High School. The goal of both projects is to create outdoor educational spaces that can be used to teach participants about our native forests and what needs to be done to preserve them. Each project includes monthly workdays, which focus on engaging participants in each step of the restoration process.
By engaging students in these greenspaces, we help them develop an understanding and passion for their local forest and prairie ecosystems. Over time, as they watch the space evolve, students are exposed to new career fields in the green industry, and they develop a deeper relationship with nature that will stick with them into adulthood.
Our Role
CGC staff works with teachers, school faculty and alumni to organize, lead and fund volunteer-driven restoration efforts for each site. We organize monthly volunteer events, provide education and training, create long-term maintenance plans for each site, write grants and propagate trees.
We also aim to educate students, faculty and volunteers throughout the restoration process, empowering them to take on larger roles within each project. If a volunteer task is to remove an invasive plant, we discuss where that plant came from, why it’s problematic, and what we can do to start addressing the problem. Understanding the “why” behind our work increases each participant’s awareness of the larger global threat posed by the spread of invasive plants, pests, and diseases.
Our Projects
Learn more about each of our current Treeforestation projects: