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Wallaceburg Secondary Students prepare Honey Locust seeds for a boiling treatment
Community Living Riverview Day Program volunteers test the quality of White Oak seeds
Three classes from Ecole Secondaire de Pain Court take initiative!
Two students from the CKSS Environmental Club plant Red Cedar Seedlings at the municipal greenhouse
CKSS life skills helps with prairie restoration
Cold-frame seeding event with CKSS Environmental Club
Planting prairie plugs at the Diversion Channel
Turin Paw Paw Seed Collection with CKSS Environmental Club
Tree planting at Lion's Park with Ursuline College Students
Greenhouse filled with Community Initiative Trees
Ridgetown District High School Students kept spirits high despite weather during planting event
CKSS Environmental Club and Life Skills class
Tilbury District High School plant American Sycamore and Ninebark
Chatham Community Living
Grade 9 Geography class from Ecole Secondaire de Pain Court learn the importance of native trees
Riverview Day Program help fill the municipal greenhouse
Riverview Day group using the float test to determine seed quality
Students from Ursuline college show the importance of group effort during their seeding event
Students from Lambton-Kent Composite School learn the importance of seed quality tests
Learning new things can be enjoyed at any age.
Youth from Community Living's Children's Respite Home helped fill the Municipal Greenhouse
Chatham Community Living volunteers shows great initiative!
Ursuline College Grade 11 Biology learn valuable environmental skills
Ursuline College - Environmental Workplace students eager to learn proper planting techniques
Lambton Kent Composite School - THESE STUDENTS FROM DRESDEN WENT FOR IT. THEY PLANTED 500 TREES!
Ridgetown District High School - ROYALS IN THE SOILS
École secondaire de Pain Court FUN IN THE SUN
The Ol' CKSS Environmental Club
Sean Haskell and CKSS Life Skills
SECOND YEAR FOR LKCS
U of G Ridgetown Gets involved!
RIDGETOWN DISTRICT HIGHSCHOOL GETS NEW LEADER IN SCIENCE
Pure quality seed after sinking to the bottom
JMSS QUADRUPLES EFFORTS WITH A HARDWORKING CREW
NORTH LAMBTON SS GETS INVOLVED IN THE NAME OF SUSTAINABLILTY
Float testing to ensure viability
CKSS LIFE SKILLS 2010
COMMUNITY TREES INITIATIVE EXHIBIT AT THE 2010 SPORTSMAN SHOW
The pots behind the crew are all the walnuts they planted
Hard Working Crew
Walnuts were a little slimy
Easy husking when they're soft.
Growing Medium
Leaves were placed in the bottom of the seed bed. In a wheel barrow, we mixed peat, sand, and topsoil, then placed it directly on top of the leaves.
Red Cedar Maceration
Red Cedar has germination inhibiting chemicals in the fruit. By macerating the fruit off the seed we increase germination rates. In nature, animals eat the purple berries and they are passed through the digestive system. The maceration technique simulates this.
American Sycamore
Mr. Williams shows students how wind dispersed seeds just need to be broadcast on the soil surface and tamped down for good soil to seed contact.
Outdoor Protected Seed Box Build
CKSS at Turin Paw Paw Woods
This CKSS Environmental Club is very keen. Succession was the topic as we explored this new habitat in Chatham-Kent
Wallaceburg Community Living at Turin Paw Paw Woods
Once again Judy, Cindy, and friends came through with enthusiastic seed collection and enjoyed being out on a beautiful fall day.
ERIEAU VOLUNTEERS
This pickup truck full of plants was tackled by these die hard volunteers and all were planted in good time. Another habitat enhancement milestone. WAY TO GO!
URSULINE LIFE SKILLS CLASS
The Ursuline Life Skills class also participated in lining out 450 trees in the on school grounds plot on June 15, 2009
URSULINE LINE OUT
Chantal Lucarelli (left) and her science class designed a seedling bed for the trees grown in the greenhouse this year.
RDHS Line Out Crew
These guys are die hards!
Ridgetown District Highschool
At Ridgetown, the students removed a strip of sod behind their soccer field about 50m long and 0.5m wide. The soil was sand, and made the planting effortless. 300 trees were installed in the line out trench and watered. The janitor and summer students have volunteered to care for the trees during the hottest periods of the year.
Wallaceburg Community Living
Hard at work making a nice line out trench in light soil for better root growth and stabilization.
Flowerbed Greenhouses
Ron Fysh, owner of Flowerbed Greenhouses on Kent Rd. 15 is pictured here roto-tilling a nice line for the 300 oaks & horse chesnut lined out in by Wallaceburg community living volunteer group.
URSALINE COLLEGE
Amazing success in only a couple of weeks.
URSALINE COLLEGE
URSALINE COLLEGE
Students planted there own trees to take home at the end of the year.
WALLACEBURG COMMUNITY LIVING
Group photo
WALLACEBURG COMMUNITY LIVING
Judy (left), Cindy (right) planted a whole wind row themselves.
WALLACEBURG COMMUNITY LIVING
Perfect soil moisture, and density. These guys really caught on to proper germination conditions in the styro-block trays. Filled loosely and leveled off, then knocked down twice and plant!
CKSS
The CKSS environmental club strikes back by planting more trees this year.
Mr. Williams, and Mr. Gilbert with life skills students
Mr. Gilbert had his Life Skills class in to seed some trays. Something different, fun, and educational for the students
URSALINE COLLEGE
Cut testing, float testing, and fun getting dirty.
RIDGETOWN RED OAK
Good germination and well on their way! Way to go Ridgetown.
The Cut Test
Ensuring quality, viability, and saving time by doing a simple cut test.
Pests
This acorn weevil is the main cause of acorn failure. They eat the seed embryo creating an air cavity causing the acorn to float in water.
Kentucky Coffee Tree
A scarification demonstration was performed with a pair of vice grips and a file. The seed coat was filed off just enough to expose the embryo to allow for moisture uptake. Here the scarified seeds are soaking for 24hrs.
Float Testing
Float testing is one of the major quality tests to ensure viability. Insect damage from acorn weevils creates air pockets where the seed embryo should be causing the acorn to float.
Soil Density and Moisture
Two key elements in germination. Soil should be knocked down a few times to compress the soil just enough to simulate nature. Moisture levels should be moist but not soaking.
Seed Tamping
~ two seeds per cell for optimum germination rates. Later, the weak ones will be pruned out.
Oak Float Test
~ seeds that sink are viable. seeds that float are generally damaged and will not germinate.
Ridgetown District High School
Mr. Willemse inspecting the irrigation
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