Check out the story There’s still time to order your own street tree in “The Bee.” Below are excerpts: When Sellwood resident Noah Jenkins talks about an upcoming neighborhood street tree planting event, he’s quick to point out that the new trees will be placed in the “planting strips” next to the curb. A planting [...]
Tags: Plant It Portland, street trees, training, yard trees
By Andy Meeks Did you know that urban street and yard trees increase air and water quality, improve neighborhood livability, help mitigate stormwater runoff, boost property values, and help beautify neighborhoods? Would you like to meet your neighbors, develop valuable organizing skills, and have fun while helping Friends of Trees reach our ambitious goal of [...]
Tags: education, training, yard trees
By Andrew Land We’ve done it again–another record-breaking season with 4,545 new street and yard trees planted through our Neighborhood Trees program and more than 24,000 trees and native shrubs planted through our Green Space Initiative in the Portland-Vancouver area. That’s more trees with more volunteer help than ever before, and there’s no way we [...]
Tags: Collins Sanctuary, crew leader, training, volunteering
By Andrew Land With 2011 now underway and our 400,000th tree already in the ground, we’re forging ahead with the busiest part this season’s planting schedule still to come. For the second year in a row, we will hold winter crew leader trainings in late January for those who have enjoyed our plantings or are [...]
Tags: Green Space Initiative, training, volunteering, yard trees
