Over the course of two warm weekends in late March, just as spring began to take hold in Henrico County, thousands of tree saplings were planted at Nuckols Farm Park in Short Pump.
Workers and volunteers gathered with shovels, gloves and bundles of young native trees, ready to be packed tightly into the soil using a planting method that encourages rapid forest growth.
The collaborative effort is between the Henrico County Environmental Action Resource Team and Richmond-based nonprofit Capital Trees. HEART brings staff, volunteers and other community partners to track environmental conditions in the county while Capital Trees focuses on expanding tree canopy and restoring green spaces…