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Saturday, 2 May 2009

Today is Green Up Day in Burlington and all over Vermont — a day of environmental service where people get together to clean up public parks and roadside litter, plant trees, or do anything that helps make our green state a little greener and more liveable. Sarah and I got up early to go with friends to UVM’s Horticultural Farm to help plant saplings for Branch Out Burlington. B.O.B. is a local group of volunteers who grow, plant, and maintain all the beautiful trees that live in the city’s “greenbelt” (the grassy space between the sidewalk and the street). It was a great experience, and a beautiful day for it — sunny, but just cool enough that we didn’t break a sweat from shoveling mulch and pushing wheelbarrows for two hours. Everybody seemed to enjoy helping out, and there was even a roaming group of musicians/clowns who played accordions and danced! Awesome.

Happy Green Up Day, everyone, and belated Happy May Day / Spring Equinox. And Happy Spring!

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