This year, love each other and the Earth by giving Friends of Trees Gift Trees for Valentine’s Day. For a donation of just $35, Friends of Trees will plant a young native tree in honor of a loved one and send a gift acknowledgement card in their name. It’s a great cause and a fun, [...]
Tags: Audubon, Collins Sanctuary, Gift Trees, I-205, Metro
The East Burn restaurant at the 1800 block of Southeast Burnside has a delightfully juicy pork sandwich that is garnished with a potato pancake, onions, sour cream and apple chutney. They also have a street tree outside that is going to die. “If this was an intentional prune, it was done without adequate understanding of [...]
Tags: Dr. Tree
**Special Alert: Friends of Trees needs your backbone and green initiative this Saturday** Tree planting volunteers are needed Saturday Jan. 30 at the Centennial, Hazelwood and Mill Park neighborhood planting. Similar to the slide show from last month’s Neighborhood Trees planting in Southeast Portland, sturdy boots and mostly a willingness to get dirty in your [...]
Tags: planting, volunteering
Day 15 on the Hebrew calendar, Jan. 30 this year, is Tu B’shvat, the Jewish New Year for Trees. From Chabad.org: This is the season in which the earliest-blooming trees in the Land of Israel emerge from their winter sleep and begin a new fruit-bearing cycle. We mark the day of Tu B’Shvat by eating [...]
Tags: fruit trees, planting, Tu B'shvat
