The New Orleans trip was meant to be four days of house building for Habitat for Humanity. When we got there, the director of our host volunteer camp asked whether any of us would be interested in spending some time replanting the bayou and local parks. Hurricaine Katrina damaged forests and parks and other green spaces and unless those were repaired, too, another flood would be even more devastating. So, 7-9 of us (depending on the day) went out to plant trees. Bald cypress in the swamps and forest behind the levee near the MRGO (the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet), and tupelo gum in a state park in St Bernard Parish and at the Islenos Centre.
The trees were 2-3 years old and the soil was pretty wet, so the planting was easy enough. And nothing tops spending the day outside.
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