2015Jan17 Lake Worth Festival of Trees


Volunteered with one of my favorite organizations: Arthur R Marshall Foundation for the Everglades!


The Lake Worth Festival of Trees was held at the Cultural Plaza in downtown Lake Worth. It's a little green spot in front of the library and frequently has things like live bands and art shows.  The Festival of Trees is held around Arbor Day and celebrates native plants! Nurseries with knowledge about native trees and plants and fruit trees will offer information and advice and will have trees and plants for sale (PBPost).

I don't think I'd ever just wandered the area before, though I run past it all the time! The walk is lined with plaques for influential black leaders, beginning with Frederick Douglass and ending with Barack Obama! I learned that the tree planted on the grounds last year was actually a memorial for Josette George Kaufman, former director of the Marshall Foundation.

Representative Mark Pafford, CEO of ARMF, spoke at the event! (Video should start at 7:09)


Senior Scientist at the ARMF, Tara Bardi, gave an hour long presentation on the South Florida Ecosystem, and the Marshall Plan! Fascinating! (I couldn't NOT go to the talk, I just love learning and relearning about America's Amazing Everglades!


By the way, these videos are by Wes Blackman, and he took lots of other great videos of the Festival of Trees too, in case you couldn't make all the talks, like me! (He gives a great write-up of the Festival's activities and presenters, too!)


In the end we were able to donate/thank away all of our Pond Apple and Cypress Trees! At the very end we still have a few left, and no way to transport them back to the office! FAU's Pine Jog Environmental Education center was also at the festival, and after talking with them, we were able to donate the rest of the wonderful wetland woody friends to them! They've been actively restoring a section of their preserve that was taken over my exotics, and hopefully an influx of native vegetation will help out!

Thank you to the ARMF's volunteers (to all the festival's volunteers, really!) and all the other green organizations that came out to the festival! It was so much fun!

Location: Lake Worth, FL, USA

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