CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio — The Circleville Tree Commission planted 17 trees in the Heritage Ponds neighborhood on Nov. 10, with help from the city’s Service Department and agriculture students from Circleville High School, according to a post from the city.
Volunteers worked along the subdivision’s residential streets, setting balled-and-burlapped trees into freshly dug holes as Service Department crews provided equipment and guidance, the post said. The city thanked both groups for their assistance in a social media post announcing the planting.
The Tree Commission oversees the city’s standards for planting, pruning, maintaining and removing trees on municipal property and meets monthly at City Hall, according to the city’s website. The commission operates under a comprehensive tree plan the city adopted in 2020 and maintains an arboretum of roughly 240 trees at Ted Lewis Park, where it has pursued accreditation through ArbNet to support eco-tourism and education.
The Heritage Ponds planting comes as Circleville has stepped up tree-planting work citywide. In September, the city solicited bids for a separate project to plant 150 trees in lower-income neighborhoods, funded through a federal grant from the U.S. Forest Service’s Urban and Community Forestry Program under the city’s Green Circleville Initiative.
The Circleville High School students who took part are members of the school’s FFA chapter, a satellite program of the Pickaway-Ross Career & Technology Center. The chapter has assisted with past city tree-planting projects, including a 54-tree planting at Barthelmas Park.
The information contained in this story was obtained from the City of Circleville.
