Social 27 April 2015

Greenfield area nursing homes join in 2015 Arbor Day observances

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Approximately 170 first-graders in the Greenfield Exempted Village School District were given redbud seedlings as part of Greenfield’s Arbor Day Observance on April 24, and trees were planted at two nursing homes in Greenfield as well.

Residents and staff of Hearth & Care of Greenfield now enjoy the new Bradford Pear tree that was planted in observance of Arbor Day on April 24. A tree also was planted at Edgewood Manor April 24 to commemorate Arbor Day.

Trees are a renewable resource and provide food and shelter for many types of wildlife. Trees give off oxygen, produce tasty fruit and a cooling shade canopy.

The history of Arbor Day dates to April 1872 in Nebraska City, Neb., when J. Sterling Morton encouraged the planting of trees. As a result, approximately a million trees were planted in Nebraska.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued an Arbor Day proclamation to the school children of the United States, pointing out the importance of trees and encouraging the teaching of forestry.

For more on the benefits of trees visit this link:
http://www.arborday.org/trees/index-benefits.cfm




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