GEORGE NEWS - Excitement was in the air this morning at the Garden Route Botanical Garden in George when young and old got their hands dirty for a good cause: planting about 1 500 trees.
The mass planting formed part of the eighth Eden Festival of Action, organised by Greenpop and the Garden Route Botanical Garden.
The Festival of Action is hosted over three weeks each year, with the weeks dedicated to specific age groups. This year it stretches from 22 June to 14 July.
"We host high school students over the first two weeks of the programme and adults in the third week,” reads a statement of the organisers.
“In 2018 we hosted the Festival of Action in the Garden Route for the first time and we are returning to this beautiful space to continue our work in the area after the devastation of the 2017 fires."
Finn Rautenbach, curator of the Garden Route Botanical Garden, told the George Herald that 1 500 trees of about 30 species were planted.
He said it is not only a community project but also a scientific experiment.
1 500 trees of about 30 species were planted.
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