College Students Spend Spring Break Helping The Chesapeake

Instead of sunning themselves in Cancun or Panama City, a group of college students from Virginia spent part of their spring break cold and dirty on a farm in Gambrills on Friday.

They dragged buckets with tree seedlings down a hillside and scattered them around a creek at the Maryland Sunrise Farm in preparation for a massive community tree planting on Saturday. The tree prep was the final task of the week during their “alternative spring break” spent with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.

Other days were spent removing stakes from young trees at a Carroll County Farm, getting seeds started at a Prince George’s County farm and building concrete “reef balls” for oysters in south county.
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