To help celebrate their 35th Anniversary, the Rideau Environmental Action League and the Town of Smiths Falls is planting a mini forest.
It will be located at Corbett/Hyland Park, with the planting of 300 trees and shrubs scheduled for the Fall.
An official groundbreaking kicked off the project.
A mini forest is a community of native trees and shrubs planted tightly together in an urban or suburban site based on the Miyawaki method.
The method emphasizes the use of dense plantings, diverse locally-native species collections, soil preparation, and multilayered design to mimic the complexity of a native forest. This dense planting technique results in taller plants in a shorter time period.