What’s happening at JCCD
Spring Tree Sale!
Orders due March 26, 2010.Adopt-A-Highway, Sunday, April 11, 2010. Time to be determined. Volunteers needed!! All volunteers need to attend a brief safety meeting prior to the clean-up date. If you are interested call the JCCD office at 517-784-2800 x214.
Earth Day Celebration in the Park, Sunday, April 25, 2010 at Sparks (Cascades) Park from 1:00-4:00p.m.
Native Plant Sale, Saturday, June 12, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in the JCCD parking lot, 211 W. Ganson St.
Your Land, Your Water, Your Michigan
Jackson County Conservation District211 W. Ganson St., Suite 200, Jackson, MI 49201
Email: lori.fitzgibbons@mi.nacdnet.net Phone: 517-784-2800 x214 Fax: 517-789-7886
Jackson County Tree Sales
Annual Tree Seedling Sale
The annual tree seedling sale helps to support conservation programs and technical assistance in Jackson County as well as encourage tree planting for conservation and beautification of our county. The sale takes place in the spring. Pre-orders are always encouraged! The tree sale is a community event and any volunteers are more than welcome to participate! If you would like more information about the tree sale, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact Lori at the Conservation District Office.
Update! Spring 2010 Tree Sale
The Spring 2010 tree sale catalogs are in the mail!! Orders for the Spring tree sale are due at the office by March 26, and the tree pickup dates are Friday, April 16 from 9am-6pm and Saturday, April 17 in the morning from 9am to 12 noon, at the Jackson County Airport. The exact location will be determined closer to pick-up date and will be posted right here, along with a map.
Order Form: A two-page PDF of the order form (small-200kb).
Main Catalog: Everything but the tree descriptions, including the order form (medium-1.3mb).
Tree Pages: All the tree pages in one big PDF download (big-3.7mb).
Fruit Trees: Three luscious pages of fruit trees.
Rain Barrels: Catch that rain and use it in your garden!
Tumbling Composter: Fast, easy tumbling barrel turns your garden wastes into compost.
If you are not on our mailing list, please contact us at 517-784-2800, ext. 214 or drop us an email. Order forms can also be found in the MSU Extension newsletter “Connections”, and at our office. We are in the process of improving our website, so be patient, we will have an opportunity to order online using Paypal coming soon!!
In the meantime, following is a list of trees we are offering this spring: Black Spruce, Blue Spruce, Canadian Hemlock, Douglas Fir, Fraser Fir, Norway Spruce, Red Pine, White Cedar, and White Pine. The deciduous trees and shrubs being offered are American Sycamore, Black Cherry, Burr Oak, Eastern Redbud, American Hazelnut, Shagbark Hickory, Red Maple, Sugar Maple, Tulip Poplar, White Birch, White Oak, Black Chokeberry, American Elderberry, Highbush Cranberry, Nannyberry, Red Osier Dogwood, Alleghany Serviceberry, White Flowering Dogwood and Winterberry. Fruit trees are Gold Rush, Honeycrisp, Jonagored, PaulaRed, and Wolf River Apple Trees, Balaton and White Gold Cherry Trees, and Flamin’ Fury and Redhaven Peach Trees.
I will take credit card orders over the phone if you’re getting anxious! We accept Visa and Mastercard.
-Lori