Stallings Elementary 11/2/24
100 Attendees. 24 Trees. 14 Species.

Approximately 100 students, parents and their friends and family came to the elementary school early Saturday (Nov. 2) morning and planted 24 trees around its playground and bus parking lot.

 

The trees were donated by TreesUnion, a new Union County nonprofit working to preserve, grow and diversify the public and private tree canopies in Union County. Union County Urban Forester Keith O’Herrin told the parents and students present that TreesUnion brought 14 different species of trees, including eight species of oak trees. “The oak tree is important for wildlife and ecological richness, but they’re also very tough,” O’Herrin said. “They handle our heavy clay soils here in Union County very well and thrive in spite of the poor quality of soils we encounter.”