Anyone that lives along a river knows that keep the riverbank intact can be quite a challenge and so it goes for us. Our locations really is advantageous as we are just around the bend at the back of Armstrongs Point and the way the water flows it really appears that the opposite side of the river has more to be concerned with. However, this summer we had a tree come down along the river and so did our neighbours Doug and Irene. I notice that Doug and Irene are coming up more in the blog - they really are great neighbours and we love living beside them as well as our other immediate neighbours and some of the people on the neighbourhood as well. Armstrongs Point really is a unique and special community to live in.
Back to the riverbank...so after looking into a number of possibilities (and still looking) we were most concerned with the cost, look afterward and the ability to access the area for any plan to work. We decided on planting Willow trees at the suggestion of my sister and brother in law. They were also instrumental in helping provide us with the willow trees as they own a large property in rural Manitoba. Through the shelter belt foundation (I think it's a foundation), rural properties larger than a certain size are able to economically purchase large volumes of tree saplings. We were fortunate enough to receive about 50 Willow saplings they had left over after they finished planting. It looks as though a number of them have taken so only time will tell how well this idea works.
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