Family plants flowers for Green River

Laura and Lily Harris plant flowers along Flaming Gorge Way, as a family volunteer project. They planted the flowers with their mother Marsha Harris.

“Usually the whole family is down here,” Marsha said.

“As a family, we do a lot of volunteer projects,” Laura said.

The Harris family has been voluntarily planting flowers for the city for six years now. The city’s Main Street organization buys the flowers and supplies and they plant the flowers.

“We harvest some of the seeds. These are seeds we harvest every year and we plant these along with it. Last year, the Merigolds kept the deer away so we...