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TWiG Dig (and Pull) At Wales Park

TWiG Dig (and Pull) At Wales Park

Members of the Belfast Garden Club TWiG Committee met this morning in Wales Park. Afterwards, many stayed behind to pull and dig out the invasive Norway maple seedlings that proliferate beneath the trees. This area of Wales Park has been targeted by TWiG, the City of Belfast, and a group of eager high school students and their teacher to become a patch forest. A patch forest is a wooded area, as small as 100 square feet, that is a complete biosphere, including understory or ground cover plants, perennials such as ferns, small trees and shrubs, and large shade trees, all…

Wales Park Patch Forest

Wales Park Patch Forest

Come to Wales Park, at the corner of Lincolnville Avenue and Main Street, to add your muscle and your expertise to the creation of an in-town patch forest. Volunteers are needed beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 9 and Friday, October 11 to work with Belfast Area High School students (under the supervision of teacher David Thomas) and members of the TWiG committee to clear brush and thin trees along the park’s perimeter. The patch forest is a collaborative educational project between the Belfast Garden Club, the City of Belfast, and the Belfast Area High School. Urban patch forests…