The City of Two Rivers and Two Rivers Public Schools are teaming up for a project at City Cemetery.
The Two Rivers High School construction class will build a new gravel-bed tree nursery to plant bare-root tree saplings.
The gravel allows the saplings to quickly develop a strong, fibrous root system before being transplanted into parks, school grounds, and public right-of-ways throughout the community.
Two Rivers staff explain that large landscape trees cost about $200 to $250 per tree.
By growing them through the gravel-bed nursery, the city can purchase lower-cost bare-root trees, improve survival rates, and produce high-quality trees for planting at a fraction of the cost.
The project also provides TRHS students with a real-world learning opportunity while building long-term capacity to expand Two Rivers’ urban tree canopy cost-effectively.
When the project would start was not announced.
