New Season, New People, New Planting

On Thursday, 14th of March, we planted rainforest and fruit trees from our nursery in the yards of several residents in Woodleigh as part of our tree adoption program. This project follows the recent community outreach we introduced at the Earthfest event early this year at the Marina Barrage. The residents very kindly offered their support to take care of the species that we had nurtured.

We had planted a great variety of trees, which include:

Edible Fruit Trees:

●      Rambutan

●      Moringa

●      Angsana

●      Longan

●      Mango

●      Mangosteen

●      Triphasia trifolia

Endangered Rainforest Trees:

●      Hopea helferi

●      Hopea odorata

●      Diospyros oblonga

●      Cynometra cauliflora

●      Shorea sumatrana

Local Common Trees:

●      Peltophorum pterocarpum (Yellow flame)

●      Syzygium grande

On the day, we met up with Dover with the trees between us and headed off to 7 properties. For 2 hours, we loosened soil, hacked away at roots, and after mulching the area plentifully to support the root development of the trees, we carefully transplanted our trees into the earth. It was refreshing to work alongside passionate members and residents, content that the saplings are now in their new, permanent home. As we waved goodbye to smiling, grateful families, we could feel the warmth of accomplishment beneath our fresh layer of mud.

The event was an excellent immersive learning experience for many of the new members in the Rainforest Restoration Project. The collaboration with the students from the Dover campus was an exciting activity for all of us. We would like to thank all of the generous residents of the estates that we planted in. We hope to work even more with others in the future.

 

By Jia Cheng Shen, Ran McClean, Ethan Lim