101 trees will be planted to mark Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday

ATLANTA – In honor of former President Jimmy Carter‘S To mark the 100th anniversary, Trees Atlanta will plant 100 trees at the Carter Center and another at a second symbolic location.

On October 1, Carter will join the Centennial Club. But Georgia has been celebrating humanity for weeks.

A star-studded music gala took place at the Fox Theater in mid-September. Just a few days later he received a lifetime achievement award Dayton Literary Peace Prize Founded in Ohio.

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100 trees for Jimmy Carter

The first tree will be planted at 10 a.m. at the Georgia State Capitol next to the Jimmy Carter statue. The second will be planted at noon in the Carter Center at the campus entrance.

The other 99 will be planted around the Carter Center between October 2024 and March 2025.

Each tree will be a live oak tree, the official state tree of Georgia. Known as a strong, hard wood, live oak was also once used for shipbuilding. It serves as a nod to former President Carter’s service in the U.S. Navy as well as his own fortitude and resilience.

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This is the second time Trees Atlanta has gifted Mother Nature to the 39th President. He received a Georgia Oak for his 80th birthday.

Greg Levine, the executive director of Trees Atlanta, noted Carter’s love of nature, which was shaped by the time he spent working on his family farm.

“We hope he will like this gift,” he said.

“From the Carters’ founding of a tree farm near Plains in the 1950s to their interest in the trees on the grounds of the Carter Presidential Center, we see that their values ​​have always been greater than themselves,” said Dr. Meredith Evans, the director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. “They understood that simple gestures like planting and caring for trees help our environment, community and spirit. Among other things, trees keep the air and water clean and our minds calm. This extends the longevity of a healthy life, as President Carter showed us.”