Girl scouts earn award at Grey Towers

MILFORD, PA — Meagan Boccio, Michele Buccine, Sarah Thatcher and Bree Anne Willette, Junior Girl Scouts from Milford Troop #229, are volunteering at Grey Towers National Historic Landmark to earn the Girl Scout Bronze Award, the highest award a Junior Girl Scout can earn.

The girls worked with US Forest Service Conservation Education Specialist Daniel Banks and Horticulturist Elizabeth Hawke to clean up the Forestry Trail to ready it for springtime visitors. They raked, picked up downed branches and planted tree sprouts in the Chestnut Tree educational area. The girls also made potting soil by screening compost and adding organic materials. The soil will be used for all the annual flower containers throughout the historic landscape. Finally, the girls spent several hours removing the heads of thousands of spent daffodils that line the historic Black Locust Alley.

The improvements made by the girls will benefit the students and visitors who hike the trail and will help provide a visibly beautiful and manicured landscape throughout the season.