Friends of Trees & community partners celebrate Arbor Month & Earth Day

Friends of Trees will join the Portland-Vancouver community at more than a dozen events to celebrate Arbor Month, Earth Day, and the conclusion of an extraordinary planting season. Since October our thousands of volunteers have planted more trees and native plants than in any previous season of our 21-year history—more than 27,000.

Tomorrow’s Arbor Day events include a Friends of Trees planting and celebration with the City of Beaverton and an Arbor Day celebration in Gresham. Friends of Trees will also participate in the Arbor Day celebration in Vancouver, WA, on April 14.

On Saturday, April 23, Friends of Trees will host three tree plantings and an annual Fruit Tree Giveaway and End-of-Season Sale of overstock street and yard trees.

Both the Fruit Tree Giveaway and End-of-Season Sale begin at 10 a.m. at Friends of Trees’ office, 3117 NE Martin Luther King Blvd., with a limit of three free fruit trees per household. The suggested donation of $5 per fruit tree will support Friends of Trees’ planting programs during the coming year.

Overstock trees are eight- to 12-feet tall and will be sold at a range of discounted prices. No reservations or advance sales can be taken by phone, so all are encouraged to attend.

Friends of Trees will also host a planting along the I-205 Multi-Use Path in Clackamas on April 9 and a Neighborhood Greenway planting on April 16. Additional April events include joining the April 17 Portland Timbers game at JELD-WEN Field as one of the team’s Pillar Partners and support from Lucy’s Table in Northwest Portland, which will donate 10 percent of its sales on April 21 to Friends of Trees.

Thanks to thousands of volunteers and supporters, Friends of Trees will plant nearly 23,000 trees and native plants at natural areas and along the I-205 Multi-Use Path and more than 4,500 street and yard trees in Portland, Vancouver, Beaverton, and Gresham this year. Since its founding in 1989, the nonprofit has planted more than 412,000 trees and native plants. To learn more, visit www.FriendsofTrees.org.

–TR