As an outdoor company, REI likes to give back to the outdoors by conserving and protecting various natural spaces, working with local communities and volunteer groups.
As such, they like their workers to sign up to some of the volunteer projects the store gets involved with in the New York area. One such project that at least I had an interest in seeing as we have enjoyed visiting there on numerous occasions was the Spring cutback on the High Line garden.
The High Line is the park built on a one mile section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan.
We learned that the High Line’s plants are not trimmed back at the onset of cold weather in the fall but instead the landscape is left intact throughout the winter and as spring arrives, Friends of the High Line staff and volunteers work together to cut back the plants to prepare for the new growing season.
More than 100,000 plants are trimmed back during this process.
Here we are getting our instructions:
After our volunteer date was rained out for two weeks in a row the third and final day was a perfect Spring day.
Working with Heather, one twisted and one cut. Then we used fine trimmed and raked up. Easy.
Oh, and tried really hard not to step on anything that we shouldn't be stepping on!
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It will be good to come back to the same area later in the year once everything has bloomed and we can be proud to say, hey, we did that.... little bit there.
As such, they like their workers to sign up to some of the volunteer projects the store gets involved with in the New York area. One such project that at least I had an interest in seeing as we have enjoyed visiting there on numerous occasions was the Spring cutback on the High Line garden.
The High Line is the park built on a one mile section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan.
We learned that the High Line’s plants are not trimmed back at the onset of cold weather in the fall but instead the landscape is left intact throughout the winter and as spring arrives, Friends of the High Line staff and volunteers work together to cut back the plants to prepare for the new growing season.
More than 100,000 plants are trimmed back during this process.
Here we are getting our instructions:
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| Photo by Liz Ligon |
After our volunteer date was rained out for two weeks in a row the third and final day was a perfect Spring day.
 |
| Photo by Liz Ligon |
Working with Heather, one twisted and one cut. Then we used fine trimmed and raked up. Easy.
Oh, and tried really hard not to step on anything that we shouldn't be stepping on!
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It will be good to come back to the same area later in the year once everything has bloomed and we can be proud to say, hey, we did that.... little bit there.
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| Photo by Liz Ligon |
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