Since 2018, the University of Louisville and the Nature Conservancy nonprofit have planted over 8,000 trees and shrubs across the city.
Wyandotte Park got a lot of those plantings as part of The Green Heart Project.
By comparing health data from neighbourhood residents with the enhanced greenery to neighbourhoods without it, researchers are trying to figure out how planting these trees can close the gap on certain health benefits like lowering inflammation. It's a reduction of at least 13 percent, according to a recently released study of the ongoing research project.
