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Monday, June 22, 2009
The Derby Darlins have a successful first green event with T.R.E.E. at Little Bayou Park
Posted by Michelle Schenck on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 8:00 AM
The Tampa Bay Derby Darlins had their first official green event take place at Little Bayou Park, in St. Petersburg, this past Saturday morning. Teaming up with the super fun and cool people at T.R.E.E. (Tampa Bay Reforestation and Environmental Effort, Inc.) the Darlins planted over 100 native trees at the Park in a record time.
With about a 20 minute introduction from
To offset the carbon emissions from the out of town traveling, the
The event was definitely a success for both parties; many of the Derby Darlins had so much fun that several mentioned coming back again soon to plant more trees.
To learn more about planting native Florida trees in the Tampa Bay area, please visit the T.R.E.E. website.
To check out the Tampa Bay Derby Darlins at their next event, go to their website for more information on their next bout, local venue appearance, or green event!
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What a great park, I used to live in the house in the background of the group picture, beautiful and serene. SWFMD went through and cut down all of the invasive plants and trees, which really opened up that end of the park, it used to be a wall of lush, green, wild forest. Way to go darlins, you are not only providing more oxygen and offsetting your carbon emissions, you are creating a sustainable habitat for nesting sea turtles that frequent that area along with bald eagles, herons, egrets and osprey.
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