Jean & I met with Ken Menzer and about 300 volunteers at 6:30 AM, at the Home Depot store on E. Bidwell Street, Folsom California, on Saturday, October 23 to kick off “Make A Difference Day”. After sign in & coffee and donuts, t-shirts were given to everyone to be worn to advertise the event and for visibility while working along a heavily traveled street. At 6:50 AM we had an indoctrination meeting and everyone was given detailed instructions. At 7:00 AM volunteers were dispersed to collect wheel barrows, shovels and buckets for water. The planting holes had already been dug. Plants, DRiWATER, Super Soil & mulch were distributed along the seven block long planting area by rail and pickup truck. Each planting hole had a marker with the name of the tree to be planted there. Volunteers determined the correct planting depth, filled around the root ball, placed the DRiWATER Tubes and completed filling the planting hole, mixing in super soil with the native soil. DRiWATER Tubes were filled and capped. Finally, four inches of mulch was applied around each tree.
At 11:30 AM approximately 600 trees had been planted and volunteers were leaving. Ken and his staff were out picking up the unplanted trees and supplies.
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